paps 0.6.7 review

paps is a text to PostScript converter that works through Pango

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Dov Grobgeld

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paps is a text to PostScript converter that works through Pango. Its input is a UTF-8 encoded text file and it outputs vectorized PostScript that is quite compressed.

paps may be used for printing any complex script supported by Pango. paps supports landscape and portrait printing as well as multiple columns.

SYNTAX

paps [--landscape] [--columns cl] [--font_scale fs] [--family f] [--rtl]

OPTIONS

--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--column cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
--fontscale fs
Font scaling. Default is 12.
--family f
Pango ft2 font family. Default is sans.
--rtl
Do rtl layout.
--svg
Output svg. Default is postscript.

What's New in This Release:
This version removes the dependency on doxygen when building the software, which in turn solves some of the porting problems paps has had in the past.