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a2ps

Program started as a text to PostScript converter, with pretty printing and all the expected features of this kind of program, but it can now handle other file types (PostScript, Texinfo, DVI, web-authoring, PDF, etc.) provided you have the necessary tools.

While highly configurable, everything was designed so that even a novice can do complicated PostScript manipulations. For instance, the program can delegate the processing of some files to other filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip,etc.) which allows a uniform treatment (n-up, page selection, duples, etc.) of heterogeneous files It also includes support for a wide range of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), medias, and Native Language Support (NLS).

Last updated 25 Jan, 2008

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Leadership

Masayuki Hatta - Maintainer
Juliusz Chroboczek - Contributor
Paolo Matos - Contributor
Chuck Robey - Contributor
Dirk Eddelbuettel - Contributor

Requirements

PSUtils (psnup (Use Requirement)
psselect (Use Requirement)
etc.) (Use Requirement)
Ghostscript (Weak Prerequisite)
GV (Weak Prerequisite)
gzip (Weak Prerequisite)
ImageMagick (Weak Prerequisite)
bzip2 (Weak Prerequisite)
acroread (Weak Prerequisite)
groff (Weak Prerequisite)
LaTeX (Weak Prerequisite)
dvips (Weak Prerequisite)
makeinfo (Weak Prerequisite)

Related Projects

GNU ghostscript , GNU trueprint, Ghostview , PPR, enscript

Subprograms

card, fixnt, fixps, pdiff, psmandup, psset, Ogonkify

Versions

4.13b

4.13b stable released 2000-03-08

Released: 8 Mar, 2000
Code Maturity: Stable
Source Archive: ftp://ftp.enst.fr/pub/unix/a2ps/a2ps-4.13b.tar.gz
Licenses: GPLv2orlater
Interfaces: Command Line

4.14

Released: 28 Dec, 2007
Code Maturity: Stable
Source Archive: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/
Licenses: GPLv3orlater
Interfaces: Command Line

User Community and Support

User manual available in HTML format from http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/doc-4.12/a2ps_toc.html

General Resources

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Please send comments on these web pages to bug-directory@fsf.org, send other questions to info@fsf.org.

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