Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01850; Tue, 23 Jun 92 17:37:00 -0400 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00866; Tue, 23 Jun 92 17:36:46 EDT Message-Id: <9206232136.AA00866@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6820; Tue, 23 Jun 92 17:35:24 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.07) id 7549; Tue, 23 Jun 92 17:35:22 EDT Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 17:35:22 -0400 From: Revised List Processor (1.7c) Subject: File: "GB2PS HELP" being sent to you To: joe@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 21 May 91 20:26:36 EDT From: Rupert Zhu Subject: PostScript Printing --- GB2PS Program GB2PS HELP FILE =============== o What is GB2PS? ================ GB2PS is a conversion program which converts the HANZI GB code article into PostScript printable files that can be printed on PostScript printers. o Usages of GB2PS ================= There are two different ways to use GB2PS: 1) GB2PS [-h] [-c font] [input_file [output_file]] or 2) GB2PS [-h] [-c font] [input_file] [> output_file] Because the PostScript program is very big normally (around 250k/page in chinese article), the spooling area may easily overflow if the large print jobs are sent, in this case, use format 1 to generate a series of PS programs (one file/page), then print them separately. The name of PS program will be in this format: output_file.page_number If you just want to generate one PS program, format 2 can do this properly. Examples: input: gb2ps -h output: the usage of GB2PS input: gb2ps cm9105a.gb cm output: PS programs cm.1,cm.2,cm.3,...,cm.10 (one file/page) input: gb2ps cm9105a.gb >cm.ps output: PS program cm.ps (very big!) o Printing the PS programs ========================== You can get the chinese article by sending the PS programs to your PS printer: print -P printer_name -M PostScript PS_program Examples: print -P dcslw -M PostScript cm.ps print -P dcslw -M PostScript cm.1 cm.2 cm.3 cm.4 * Note: The 'print' is a printing command in SUN OS (UNIX) system. o System environment ==================== GB2PS is developed in UNIX system and this is the only one OS I can access, as father as I knew, Mr Minghui Yao have already ported it to VMS system. If you have problems in running GB2PS on VMS system, please consult Mr. Yao at YAOM@ASUCP2.LA.ASU.EDU to share his experience. o Chinese fonts =============== This version of GB2PS only provides the SONG style 24X24 chinese font, that's the only font I got, I am going to make other fonts available later. o Quality ========= In the laser printing world, the quality of 24X24 font is really not good enough, but, in my experience, if you make another copy on photocopier from the original printout (printed from laser printer), this copy will be much better in quality than the original one. o FTP site ========== The current GB2PS can be obtained via anonymous FTP from: Site 1: AHKCUS.ORG (For north America and Europe) Directory: src/unix File: gb2ps.tar.Z Site 2: anucsd.anu.edu.au (For Australia and New Zealand) Directory: pub/gb2ps File: gb2ps.tar.Z o AUTHOR ======== The author can be reached by E-mail: william@anucsd.anu.edu.au or mail at: Wei Sun Department of Computer Science The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Comments or reports on bugs and problems are welcome. =========================================================================