APSPREVIEW(1) BSD General Commands Manual APSPREVIEW(1)NAMEapspreview — preview PostScript file(s) as generated by apsfilter
SYNOPSISapspreview [-Pqueue] [-Zoptions] [input...]
apspreview [-h]
DESCRIPTION
With apspreview you can create a PostScript representation of the file(s)
you are about to print in order to check it before actually printing.
Your file(s) will be converted to PostScript according to the queue spe‐
cific configuration, and afterwards you will be able to print all or some
pages from your PostScript viewer application (gv, kghostview or ghost‐
view).
OPTIONS-h show help screen
-Pqueue select a printer queue (different from the default one)
-Zoptions use apsfilter command line options (comma-separated list)
input... input file(s) [default: stdin]
NOTES
If you use the -P option, please remember to pass the same printer queue
on to the lpr(1) command.
Be careful if your printer queue configuration includes a setting to cre‐
ate multiple pages per sheet (PS_NUP=2, PS_NUP=4 or PS_NUP=8). In order
to make sure that apsfilter(1) does not repeat n-up printing, use the
1pps command line option when actually printing the file.
apspreview only works correctly with entries in /etc/printcap that have
been created by /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP. All configuration set‐
tings will be copied from the relevant apsfilterrc files.
FILES
/etc/printcap printer capability data base
/usr/local/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter apsfilter script
/usr/local/bin/aps2file tool to save apsfilter output
to a file
SEE ALSOapsfilter(1), aps2file(1), apsfilter-bug(1), apsfilterrc(5), printcap(5)BUGS
See apsfilter software center - http://www.apsfilter.org/ - for new ver‐
sions, bugfixes and known bugs.
Please use the new tool apsfilter-bug(1) to release bug- or problem
reports. It automatically presents you a form in an editor window which
asks you some standard questions. If you save and quit the editor ses‐
sion, then this report is sent automatically via e-mail to the proper
apsfilter mailinglist.
If apsfilter fails to print something or prints it in a way you wouldn't
expect and you want to report an apsfilter error then please save the
debugging output of one print session using the new aps2file(1) utility
by typing aps2file -D -Z options file > /dev/null 2> file.debug and
including the debugging output in the file file.debug into the edit ses‐
sion of the apsfilter-bug utility, so that it is included into the mail
to the apsfilter mailinglist.
Please note that you need to run /bin/sh (Bourne Shell), bash or a com‐
patible shell, so that the above mentioned output redirection works.
Under C-shell (/bin/csh) or tcsh it would't work. If you don't know, then
simply make sure you use the Bournce shell by typing /bin/sh or bash,
then you should have no problems with redirection of stdout and stderr (>
/dev/null 2> file.debug).
DOCUMENTATION
See official apsfilter homepage
http://www.apsfilter.org/handbook.html Apsfilter Handbook including the
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
USER FORUM
Please send questions to the official apsfilter help channel
apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org. The above section BUGS and the file
HOWTO-BUGREPORTS tells you how to report bugs. If you want to know how
to troubleshoot your apsfilter installation, please read the manpage
aps2file(1) and apsfilter-bug(1) as well as the Apsfilter Handbook care‐
fully.
HISTORY
The apspreview manpage has been written by Michael Lo�in <phal‐
lobst@web.de> and first appeared in apsfilter V 7.1.0.
BSD Dec 27, 2001 BSD
