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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…
fontc – Fontcap preprocessor for NCAR Graphics Synopsisfontc ascii-fontcap-name binary-fontcap-name Descriptionfontc converts an ascii-encoded fontcap, ascii-fontcap-name, into a binary-encoded fontcap, binary-fontcap-name. Binary encoded fontcaps are system dependent and should not be assumed to be portable across different system architectures. See AlsoOnline: ctrans(1NCARG), fontcap(5NCARG) CopyrightCopyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this…
font2c – Write PostScript Type 0 or Type 1 font as C code Synopsisfont2c fontnames DescriptionThis script invokes gs(1) with the following options: -q -dNODISPLAY -dWRITESYSTEMDICT followed by the arguments from the command line. This will write out a PostScript Type 0 or Type 1 font as C code that can be linked with the…
folder, folders – set/list current folder/message Synopsis folder [+folder] [msg] [-all | -noall] [-create | -nocreate] [-fast | -nofast] [-header | -noheader] [-recurse | -norecurse] [-total | -nototal] [-list | -nolist] [-push | -pop] [-pack | -nopack] [-print] [-verbose | -noverbose] [-version] [-help] folders is equivalent to folder -allDescriptionSince the nmh environment is the shell,…
folder, folders – set/list current folder/message Synopsis folder [+folder] [msg] [-all | -noall] [-create | -nocreate] [-fast | -nofast] [-header | -noheader] [-recurse | -norecurse] [-total | -nototal] [-list | -nolist] [-push | -pop] [-pack | -nopack] [-print] [-verbose | -noverbose] [-version] [-help] folders is equivalent to folder -allDescriptionSince the nmh environment is the shell,…
fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width Synopsisfold [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/]… DescriptionWrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -b, –bytes count bytes rather than columns -s, –spaces…
Fog – The console Form Designer for GNU/Linux Version 1.4 DescriptionFog (Form Designer) is part of the GnuDOS package, which is a library of functions for use under the GNU/Linux console/xterm. It provides four utilities: Kbd (for keyboard handling), Screen (for screen handling), Dialogs (for drawing dialog and input boxes), and Strings (for string manipulation)….