1MGP2PS(1)                 BSD General Commands Manual                MGP2PS(1)
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NAME

4     mgp2ps — generate PostScript file from MagicPoint file
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SYNOPSIS

7     mgp2ps [-cirtV] [-f psfile] [-p papersize] [-x xmargin] [-y ymargin]
8            mgpfile
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DESCRIPTION

11     mgp2ps is a converter from MagicPoint file mgpfile to PostScript file.
12     If -f option is specified, PostScript will be generated to psfile.  Oth‐
13     erwise, printed to the standard output.
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15     If there exists foo.eps corresponding to foo.gif (or whatever), the
16     encapsulated PostScript file will be included to the PostScript file
17     instead.
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19     The following options are available:
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21     -c      Generate color PostScript file (experimental).  By default mgp2ps
22             will generate monochrome postscript file.
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24     -i      Paint inside icon symbols.
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26     -r      Stack the paper in reverse order.
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28     -V      Be verbose.
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30     -f psfile
31             Pathname to put the PostScript output.
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33     -p papersize
34             papersize specifies the size of the paper to be used.  a3, a4,
35             a5, b5, A3, A4, A5, B5, letter, legal, ledger, tabloid,
36             statement, executive, folio, quarto and 10x14 are available.
37             Default size is a4.
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39     -x xmargin
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41     -y ymargin
42             xmargin and ymargin specifies length of the margin area around
43             the edge of the paper.
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45     -t      Use truetypefont instead of psfont (ASCII font only).
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47     -e      Specify encodings. At this moment, "iso-8859-1", "latin1",
48             "iso-8859-2" "and latin-2" are supported as encodings.
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50     -m      emulate "%pause" directive.
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52     -X engine
53             Do not use rendering engine, specified by engine.  engine can be
54             only FreeType so far.
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56     -g level
57             specify the distance level between lines. If level is 0, the
58             result will be close to the result of xft2 rendering. If others,
59             it will be close to the result of other rendering engines.
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SEE ALSO

62     mgp(1)
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HISTORY

65     mgp2ps was created so that Kazu Yamamoto could submit his tutorial docu‐
66     ment to the committee of Internet Week '97.
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