GROLBP
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS TYPEFACES PAPER SIZES CUSTOM PAPER SIZES PAGE ORIENTATION FONT FILE FORMAT FILES SEE ALSO
grolbp - groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).
grolpb [ __-l__? [ __--landscape__? __-v__? [ __--version__? [ __-c__''n''? __--copies=__''numcopies''? __-p__''paper_size''? __--papersize=__''paper_size''? __-o__''orientation''? __--orientation=__''orientation''? __-F__''dir''? [ __--fontdir=__''dir''? __-h__? [ __--help__? [ ''files...''?
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 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.
-cnumcopies
--copies=numcopies
Print numcopies copies of each page.
-l
--landscape
Print the document with a landscape orientation.
-ppaper_size
--papersize=paper_size
Set the paper size to paper_size, which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section PAPER SIZES.
-oorientation
--orientation=orientation
Print the document with orientation orientation, which must be `portrait' or `landscape'.
-v
--version
Print the version number.
-Fdir
--fontdir=dir
Prepend directory dir/devlbp to the search path for font and device description files.
-h
--help
Print a short help text.
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:
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).
To set the paper size in the DESC file, insert in that file a line containing papersize desired_papersize, where desired_papersize is:
One of the recognized paper sizes: `a4', `letter', `legal' or `executive'.
A custom defined paper size, as described in the CUSTOM PAPER SIZES subsection below.
The name of a file (e.g. /etc/papersize) whose first line must be the desired paper size in one of the above formats.
If there are various papersize lines in the DESC file, only the first valid one is used.
To set the paper size in the command line, add
-p desired_papersize
or
--papersize=desired_papersize
to the other grolbp options, where desired_papersize is in the same format as in the DESC file.
Paper sizes are case insensitive (i.e., `A4' is the same as `a4').
If no paper size is specified in the DESC file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
Custom defined paper sizes are in the form custlengthxwidth where length and width are the dimensions of the paper you want to to use, specified in printer units (1/300 of an inch). For instance, to print in a postcard sized paper which is two inches long and four inches wide you can insert a line containing
papersize cust600x1200
at the beginning of the DESC file.
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__?
As with paper sizes, 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
Nbase_fontnamefont_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.
/usr/share/groff/1.17.2/font/devlbp/DESC
Device description file.
/usr/share/groff/1.17.2/font/devlbp/F
Font description file for font F.
/usr/share/groff/1.17.2/tmac/lbp.tmac
Macros for use with grolbp.
groff(1), troff(1), groff_out(5), groff_font(5), __groff_char__(7)?
