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grolbp(1) General Commands Manual grolbp(1)
grolbp - groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8
series laser printers)
grolbp [-l] [-c num-copies] [-F font-directory] [-o orientation]
[-p paper-size] [-w width] [file ...]
grolbp [--copies=num-copies] [--fontdir=font-directory] [--landscape]
[--linewidth=width] [--orientation=orientation]
[--papersize=paper-size] [file ...]
grolbp -h
grolbp --help
grolbp -v
grolbp --version
grolbp is a driver for groff that produces output in CAPSL and VDM
format suitable for Canon LBP-4 and LBP-8 printers.
For compatibility with grolj4(1) there is an additional drawing
command available:
\D'R dh dv'
Draw a rule (i.e., a solid black rectangle), with one corner
at the current position, and the diagonally opposite corner at
the current position +(dh,dv).
Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal
sign (‘=’) between a long-name option and its argument.
-c num-copies
--copies=num-copies
Print num-copies copies of each page.
-F font-directory
--fontdir=font-directory
Prepend directory font-directory/devname to the search path
for font and device description files; name is the name of the
device, usually lbp.
-h
--help Print a short help text.
-l
--landscape
Print the document with a landscape orientation.
-o orientation
--orientation=orientation
Print the document with orientation orientation, which must be
‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’.
-p paper-size
--papersize=paper-size
Set the paper size to paper-size, which must be a valid paper
size description as indicated in section “Paper Sizes”, below.
-v
--version
Print the version number.
-w width
--linewidth=width
Set the default line thickness to width thousandths of an em.
If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to
0.04 em.
The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable
typefaces, each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic
styles. Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at
the sizes 8 and 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for
Elite) are supported, each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic
styles.
The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access
these fonts:
┌────────────────┬───────────┬────────┬──────────┬──────────────┐
│ Typeface │ Regular │ Bold │ Italic │ Bold-Italic │
├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Dutch │ TR │ TB │ TI │ TBI │
├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Swiss │ HR │ HB │ HI │ HBI │
├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Swiss Narrow │ HNR │ HNB │ HNI │ HNBI │
├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Courier │ CR │ CB │ CI │ │
├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Elite │ ER │ EB │ EI │ │
└────────────────┴───────────┴────────┴──────────┴──────────────┘
The paper size can be set in the DESC file or with command-line
options to grolbp. If the paper size is specified both ways, the
command-line options take precedence over the contents of the DESC
file (this applies to the page orientation too).
See groff_font(5) how to set the paper dimensions in the DESC file.
To set the paper size in the command line, add
-p paper-size
or
--papersize=paper-size
to the other grolbp options, where paper-size is in the same format
as in the DESC file.
If no paper size is specified in the DESC file or the command line, a
default size of A4 is used.
As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page (portrait
or landscape) can be set in the DESC file or with command-line
options. It is also case insensitive.
To set the orientation in the DESC file, insert a line with the
following content:
orientation [portrait|landscape]
Only the first valid orientation command in the DESC file is used.
To set the page orientation with command-line options you can use the
-o or --orientation option with the same parameters (portrait or
landscape) as in the DESC file. Or you can use the -l option to
force the pages to be printed in landscape.
In addition to the usual commands described in groff_font(5), grolbp
provides the command lbpname which sets the font name sent to the
printer when requesting this font. The syntax of this command is:
lbpname printer_font_name
· For bitmapped fonts, printer_font_name has the form
N⟨base_fontname⟩⟨font_style⟩
base_fontname is the font name as it appears in the printers
font listings without the first letter, up to (but not
including) the font size. font_style can be one of the
letters R, I, or B, indicating the font styles Roman, Italic
and Bold respectively.
For instance, if the printer's font listing A shows font
‘Nelite12I.ISO_USA’, the corresponding entry in the font
description file is
lbpname NeliteI
Note that you may need to modify grolbp to add support for new
bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and font sizes
of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into
the program.
· For scalable fonts, printer_font_name is identical to the font
name as it appears in the printer's font listing A.
For instance, to select the ‘Swiss’ font in bold style, which
appears in the printer's font listing A as ‘Swiss-Bold’, the
required lbpname command line is
lbpname Swiss-Bold
The argument of lbpname is case sensitive.
GROFF_FONT_PATH
A list of directories in which to search for the devname
directory in addition to the default ones. See troff(1) and
groff_font(5) for more details.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devlbp/DESC
Device description file.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devlbp/F
Font description file for font F.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/lbp.tmac
Macros for use with grolbp.
groff(1), troff(1), groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7)
This page is part of the groff (GNU troff) project. Information
about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/⟩. If you have a bug report for
this manual page, see ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/⟩. This
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⟨https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/groff.git⟩ on 2020-08-13. (At that
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groff 1.22.4.234-3ba6 16 May 2020 grolbp(1)
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