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foomatic-printermap-to-gutenprint-xml – Updates Gutenprint driver XML file Synopsis foomatic-printermap-to-gutenprint-xml DescriptionThis command updates the driver XML file for the Gutenprint driver to the state of the foomatic-printermap file in the Gutenprint source tree. Used to update the driver XML file for Gutenprint in the OpenPrinting database. It is very unlikely you need to do this.
foomatic-ppdfile – Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo Synopsisfoomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p <printerid> foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern] foomatic-ppdfile -h DescriptionThe first form of the foomatic-ppdfile to compute the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid printer/driver combo available in the Foomatic database, both for printing with foomatic-rip(1) and for applications/clients being…
foomatic-ppd-to-xml – Generate Foomatic printer XML from a PPD Synopsis foomatic-ppd-to-xml OPTIONSFR [DRIVER:]PPD [[DRIVER:]PPD …] foomatic-ppd-to-xml -h DescriptionThe first form of the foomatic-ppd-to-xml command creates Foomatic printer XML corresponding to a given PPD file. If DRIVER is specified, it is the driver to which the PPD file should get assigned. If not supplied, the first…
foomatic-ppd-options – show the PPD options Synopsisfoomatic-ppd-options [-d=debuglevel] [ ppdfiles ] DescriptionThe foomatic-ppd-options program reads the specified PPD files or stdin and decodes the PPD file to produce a list of options. This is really just a text based version of other print configuration tools. The output format consists of a set of lines, each…
foomatic-perl-data – generate Perl data structures from XML Synopsisfoomatic-perl-data [ -O ] [ -C ] [ -P ] [ -D ] [ -o option=setting ] [ -o … ] [ -v ] [ filename ] Options-O Parse overview XML data -C Parse printer/driver combo XML data (default) -P Parse printer entry XML data -D Parse…
foomatic-nonumericalids – Convert numerical printer IDS to clear-text IDs Synopsis foomatic-nonumericalids DescriptionThis script changes all old cryptic numerical printer IDs from the old PostGreSQL time to clear-text printer IDs in the installed Foomatic database. It is very unlikely you need to do this.
foomatic-fix-xml – Remove leading blank lines from Foomatic database Synopsis foomatic-fix-xml [DBDIR] DescriptionUse the foomatic-fix-xml command if you have compiled foomatic-perl-data against libxml 1.x and you have old database entries with a leading blank line.
foomatic-extract-text – Generate .po files from Foomatic UI strings Synopsis foomatic-extract-text DescriptionThe foomatic-extract-text command generates .po files from the UI strings in the currently installed Foomatic database. It is not intended to be called directly by the user.
foomatic-ppdfile – Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo Synopsisfoomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p <printerid> foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern] foomatic-ppdfile -h DescriptionThe first form of the foomatic-ppdfile to compute the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid printer/driver combo available in the Foomatic database, both for printing with foomatic-rip(1) and for applications/clients being…
foomatic-configure – the main configuration program of the foomatic printing system. Synopsisfoomatic-configure [OPTION]… foomatic-configure -n queuename [ -N description ] [ -L location ] [ -c connect ] [ -d driver ] [ -p printer ] [ –ppd ppdfile ] [ -s spooler ] [ -C [ sourcespooler ] sourcequeue ] [ -o option1=value1 -o … ] [ -q ] foomatic-configure -D -n queuename [ -s spooler ] [ -q ] foomatic-configure -R -n queuename [ -s spooler ] [ -q ] foomatic-configure -Q [ -s spooler ] [ -n queuename ] [ -r ] foomatic-configure -P [ -s spooler ] [ -n queuename ] [ -d driver ] [ -p printer ] [ –ppd ppdfile ] [ index ] foomatic-configure -X -p printer | -d driver | -p printer -d driver foomatic-configure -O foomatic-configure -h foomatic-configure –help Descriptionfoomatic-configure is a program to set up and configure print queues for every known spooler (CUPS, LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr,…
foomatic-compiledb – Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database Synopsisfoomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [ -f ] [ -j n ] [ driver … ] Descriptionfoomatic-compiledb generates all PPD files or Foomatic combo XML files for all possible printer/driver combos, or only for a selected range of drivers. It generally should not be necessary except for people who want to generate a set of Foomatic data files for distribution. For configuring single…
foomatic-combo-xml – <put a short description here> Synopsisfoomatic-combo-xml [OPTION]… DescriptionThe Foomatic acceleration engine written in C (by Till), it computes printer/driver combo XML files and the printer overview XML file. Exit Statusfoomatic-combo-xml returns ??? AuthorManfred Wassmann <manolo [at] NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary. BugsThis manpage needs editing. Please post…
foomatic-cleanupdrivers – Remove driver entries with no command line Synopsis foomatic-cleanupdrivers [DBDIR] DescriptionThe foomatic-cleanupdrivers command removes all driver XML files which have an empty command line. It is not intended to be called directly by the user.
fonttosfnt – Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper Synopsisfonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.ttf [ — ] font… DescriptionWrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper. Options-v Be verbose. -c Do not crop glyphs. This usually increases file size, but may sometimes yield…
fontopia – the console bitmap font editor Synopsisfontopia [OPTIONS] [file-name] DescriptionAbout: ====== Fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. What this means in simple English is that you can edit the fonts that your GNU/Linux kernel is using to display your text on text-based (vs graphical) terminals. Unlike other console text editors which usually…
fontmatrix – a powerful open source font manager Synopsisfontmatrix [-h|–help] DescriptionFontmatrix is an open source font manager originally developed on Linux, but now runs on OSX as well. This man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the program’s use. It’s main purpose is to make sure you can find the full documentation quickly…
fontlint – check a font Synopsisfontlint fontfile … DescriptionThe program fontlint loads a font (or more than one), which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and checks the font for certain common errors * Intersecting contours * Incorrectly oriented contours * Extrema not marked by points And for PostScript fonts:…
fontinst – utility to run TeX as fontinst Synopsisfontinst package Descriptionfontinst runs tex(1) with the –progname flag set to pretend to be the program fontinst (affecting Karl Berry paths). Typing fontinst fontinst.sty will start tex(1) and give the user an interactive prompt (*) where fontinst commands can be typed (such as \latinfamily{ptm}{}\bye). See Alsotex(1) The…
fontimage – produce a font thumbnail image Synopsisfontimage [–help] [–width num] [–height num] [–pixelsize num] [–text string] [–o outputfile] [–usage] [–version] fontfile DescriptionThe program fontimage loads a font, which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and then produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font. Options–help Provide a description with a list…
fontforge – create and modify PostScript, TrueType and SVG fonts Synopsisfontforge [-c string] [-cmap maptype] [-depth pixeld] [-display str] [-lang=ff] [-lang=py] [-last] [-library-status] [-help] [-keyboard ktype] [-new] [-nosplash] [-recover mode] [-script file] [-sync] [-usage] [-vc vclass] [-version] fontfile … DescriptionThe program fontforge allows you to create and modify font files, accepting input in the following…