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GROPDF(1)							     GROPDF(1)

NAME
       gropdf - PDF driver for groff

SYNOPSIS
       gropdf [-delvs] [-F dir] [-p papersize] [-y foundry] [-u [cmapfile]]
	      [files ...]

       It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its
       parameter.

DESCRIPTION
       gropdf  translates  the	output	of  GNU troff to PDF.  Normally gropdf
       should be invoked by using the groff command with a -Tpdf  option.   If
       no  files  are given, gropdf reads the standard input.  A filename of -
       also causes gropdf to read the standard input.  PDF output  is  written
       to  the	standard  output.   When gropdf is run by groff options can be
       passed to gropdf using groff's -P option.

       See section FONT INSTALLATION below for a guide how  to	install	 fonts
       for gropdf.

OPTIONS
       -d     Include debug information as comments within the PDF.  Also pro‐
	      duces an uncompressed PDF.

       -e     Force all fonts to be embedded in the PDF.

       -Fdir  Prepend directory dir/devname to the search path for  font,  and
	      device  description  files; name is the name of the device, usu‐
	      ally pdf.

       -l     Print the document in landscape format.

       -ppaper-size
	      Set physical dimension of output	medium.	  This	overrides  the
	      papersize,  paperlength,	and  paperwidth	 commands  in the DESC
	      file; it accepts the same arguments as  the  papersize  command.
	      See groff_font (5) for details.

       -v     Print the version number.

       -yfoundry
	      Set the foundry to use for selecting fonts of the same name.

       -e     Forces gropdf to embed ALL fonts (even the 14 base PDF fonts).

       -s     Append  a	 comment  line	to end of PDF showing statistics, i.e.
	      number of pages in  document.   Ghostscript's  ps2pdf  complains
	      about this line if it is included, but works anyway.

       -u
       -ucmapfilename
	      Gropdf  normally includes a ToUnicode CMap with any font created
	      using text.enc as the encoding file, this	 makes	it  easier  to
	      search  for words which contain ligatures.  You can include your
	      own CMap by specifying a cmapfilename or have no CMap at all  by
	      omitting the argument.

USAGE
       The  input to gropdf must be in the format output by troff(1).  This is
       described in groff_out(5).

       In addition, the device and font description files for the device  used
       must  meet certain requirements: The resolution must be an integer mul‐
       tiple of 72 times the sizescale.	 The pdf device uses a	resolution  of
       72000 and a sizescale of 1000.

       The  device  description	 file  must  contain  a	 valid paper size; see
       groff_font(5) for more information.  gropdf uses the same Type 1	 Adobe
       postscript fonts as the grops device driver.  Although the PDF Standard
       allows the use of other font types (like TrueType) this	implementation
       only  accepts  the Type 1 postscript font.  Fewer Type 1 fonts are sup‐
       ported natively in PDF documents than the standard 35  fonts  supported
       by  grops  and all postscript printers, but all the fonts are available
       since any which aren't supported natively are automatically embedded in
       the PDF.

       gropdf supports the concept of foundries, that is different versions of
       basically the same font.	 During install a Foundry file controls	 where
       fonts  are  found and builds groff fonts from the files it discovers on
       your system.

       Each font description file must contain a command

	      internalname psname

       which says that the PostScript name  of	the  font  is  psname.	 Lines
       starting with # and blank lines are ignored.  The code for each charac‐
       ter given in the font file must correspond to the code in  the  default
       encoding	 for  the  font.   This	 code  can  be used with the \N escape
       sequence in troff to select the character, even if the  character  does
       not  have a groff name.	Every character in the font file must exist in
       the PostScript font, and the widths given in the font file  must	 match
       the widths used in the PostScript font.

       Note that gropdf is currently only able to display the first 256 glyphs
       in any font.  This restriction will be lifted in a later version.

       gropdf can automatically include the downloadable  fonts	 necessary  to
       print the document.  Fonts may be in PFA or PFB format.

       Any  downloadable  fonts	 which	should,	 when required, be included by
       gropdf	    must       be	listed	     in	       the	  file
       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/download;  this  should  consist of
       lines of the form

	      foundry font filename

       where foundry is the foundry name or blank  for	the  default  foundry.
       font  is	 the  PostScript name of the font, and filename is the name of
       the file containing the font; lines beginning with #  and  blank	 lines
       are ignored; fields must be separated by tabs; filename is searched for
       using the same mechanism that is used for groff font metric files.  The
       download	 file  itself  is also searched for using this mechanism; cur‐
       rently, only the first found file in the font path  is  used.   Foundry
       names  are usually a single character (such as `U' for the URW Foundry)
       or blank for the default foundry.  This default uses the same fonts  as
       ghostscript uses when it embeds fonts in a PDF file.

       In the default setup there are styles called R, I, B, and BI mounted at
       font positions 1 to 4.  The fonts are grouped into families A,  BM,  C,
       H, HN, N, P, and T having members in each of these styles:

	      AR     AvantGarde-Book
	      AI     AvantGarde-BookOblique
	      AB     AvantGarde-Demi
	      ABI    AvantGarde-DemiOblique
	      BMR    Bookman-Light
	      BMI    Bookman-LightItalic
	      BMB    Bookman-Demi
	      BMBI   Bookman-DemiItalic
	      CR     Courier
	      CI     Courier-Oblique
	      CB     Courier-Bold
	      CBI    Courier-BoldOblique
	      HR     Helvetica
	      HI     Helvetica-Oblique
	      HB     Helvetica-Bold
	      HBI    Helvetica-BoldOblique
	      HNR    Helvetica-Narrow
	      HNI    Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique
	      HNB    Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
	      HNBI   Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique
	      NR     NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
	      NI     NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
	      NB     NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
	      NBI    NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
	      PR     Palatino-Roman
	      PI     Palatino-Italic
	      PB     Palatino-Bold
	      PBI    Palatino-BoldItalic
	      TR     Times-Roman
	      TI     Times-Italic
	      TB     Times-Bold
	      TBI    Times-BoldItalic

       There is also the following font which is not a member of a family:

	      ZCMI   ZapfChancery-MediumItalic

       There  are also some special fonts called S for the PS Symbol font. The
       lower case greek characters are automatically  slanted  (to  match  the
       SymbolSlanted  font  (SS)  available  to postscript).  Zapf Dingbats is
       available as ZD, the "hand pointing  left"  glyph  (\lh)	 is  available
       since  it  has  been  defined  using  the \X'pdf: xrev' extension which
       reverses the direction of letters within words.

       The default color for \m and \M is black; for  colors  defined  in  the
       `rgb'  color  space  setrgbcolor is used, for `cmy' and `cmyk' setcmyk‐
       color, and for `gray' setgray.  Note that setcmykcolor is a  PostScript
       LanguageLevel 2 command and thus not available on some older printers.

       gropdf  understands some of the X commands produced using the \X escape
       sequences supported by grops.   Specifically,  the  following  is  sup‐
       ported.

       \X'ps: invis'
	      Suppress output.

       \X'ps: endinvis'
	      Stop suppressing output.

       \X'ps:  exec  gsave currentpoint 2 copy translate n rotate neg exch neg
       exch translate'
	      where n is the angle of rotation.	 This is to support the	 align
	      command in gpic.

       \X'ps: exec grestore'
	      Again used by gpic to restore after rotation.

       \X'ps: exec n setlinejoin'
	      where n can be one of the following values.

	      0 = Miter join
	      1 = Round join
	      2 = Bevel join

       \X'ps: exec n setlinecap'
	      where n can be one of the following values.

	      0 = Butt cap
	      1 = Round cap, and
	      2 = Projecting square cap

       \X'ps: ... pdfmark'
	      All the pdfmark macros installed by using -m pdfmark or -m mspdf
	      (see documentation in `pdfmark.pdf').  A subset of these	macros
	      are installed automatically when you use -Tpdf so you should not
	      need to use `-m pdfmark' for using most of the  PDF  functional‐
	      ity.

       All other ps: tags are silently ignored.

       One \X special used by the DVI driver is also recognised:

       \X'papersize=paper-size'
	      where the paper-size parameter is the same as the papersize com‐
	      mand.  See groff_font(5) for details.  This means that  you  can
	      alter the page size at will within the PDF file being created by
	      gropdf.  If you do want to change the paper  size,  it  must  be
	      done before you start creating the page.

       In addition, gropdf supports its own suite of pdf: tags.	 The following
       tags are supported:

       \X'pdf: pdfpic file alignment width height line-length'
	      Place an image of the specified width containing the PDF drawing
	      from file file of desired width and height (if height is missing
	      or zero then it is scaled proportionally).  If alignment	is  -L
	      the  drawing  is	left  aligned.	If it is -C or -R a linelength
	      greater than the width of the drawing is required as  well.   If
	      width  is	 specified as zero then the width is scaled in propor‐
	      tion to the height.

       \X'pdf: xrev'
	      This toggles a flag which reverses  the  direction  of  printing
	      letter  by  letter,  i.e., each separate letter is reversed, not
	      the entire word.	This is useful for reversing the direction  of
	      glyphs  in  the  Dingbats	 font.	 To  return to normal printing
	      repeat the command again.

       \X'pdf: markstart /ANN definition'
	      The macros which support PDF Bookmarks use this call  internally
	      to  start	 the  definition  of  bookmark hotspot (user will have
	      called `.pdfhref L' with the text which  will  become  the  `hot
	      spot'  region).	Normally this is never used except from within
	      the pdfmark macros.

       \X'pdf: markend'
	      The macros which support PDF Bookmarks use this call  internally
	      to  stop	the  definition	 of  bookmark  hotspot (user will have
	      called `.pdfhref L' with the text which  will  become  the  `hot
	      spot'  region).	Normally this is never used except from within
	      the pdfmark macros.

       \X'pdf: marksuspend'
       \X'pdf: markrestart'
	      If you are using page traps to produce headings, footings, etc.,
	      you need to use these in case a `hot spot' crosses a page bound‐
	      ary, otherwise any text output by the heading or	footing	 macro
	      will  be marked as part of the `hot spot'.  To stop this happen‐
	      ing just place `.pdfmarksuspend' and  `.pdfmarkrestart'  at  the
	      start  and end of the page trap macro, respectively.  (These are
	      just convenience macros which emit the \X	 code.	 These	macros
	      must only be used within page traps.)

   Importing graphics
       gropdf  only  supports importing other PDF files as graphics.  But that
       PDF file may contain any of the graphic formats supported  by  the  PDF
       standard (such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.).	 So any application which out‐
       puts PDF can be used as an embedded file in gropdf.  The PDF  file  you
       wish  to	 insert	 must  be  a single page and the drawing must just fit
       inside the media size of the PDF file.  So, in inkscape(1)  or  gimp(1)
       (for example) make sure the canvas size just fits the image.

       The  PDF	 parser used in gropdf has not been rigorously tested with all
       possible applications which produce PDFs.  If you find  a  single  page
       PDF  which fails to import properly, it is worth running it through the
       pdftk(1) program by issuing the command:

	      pdftk oldfile.pdf output newfile.pdf

       You may find that newfile.pdf will now load successfully.

   TrueType and other font formats
       gropdf does not support any other fonts except Adobe  Type  1  (PFA  or
       PFB).

FONT INSTALLATION
       This section gives a summary of the above explanations; it can serve as
       a step-by-step font installation guide for gropdf.

	·  Convert your font to something groff understands.  This is either a
	   PostScript  Type  1 font in either PFA or PFB, together with an AFM
	   file.

	   The very first line in a PFA/PFB file contains this:

		  %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0:

	   A PFB file has this also in the first line, but the string is  pre‐
	   ceded with some binary bytes.

	·  Convert  the	 AFM  file  to	a groff font description file with the
	   afmtodit(1) program.	 An example call is

		  afmtodit Foo-Bar-Bold.afm map/textmap FBB

	   which converts the metric file `Foo-Bar-Bold.afm' to the groff font
	   `FBB'.   If	you  have a font family which comes with normal, bold,
	   italic, and bold italic faces, it is recommended to use the letters
	   R, B, I, and BI, respectively, as postfixes in the groff font names
	   to make groff's `.fam' request work.	 An example is groff's	built-
	   in  Times-Roman font: The font family name is T, and the groff font
	   names are TR, TB, TI, and TBI.

	·  Install both the groff font description files and the  fonts	 in  a
	   `devpdf'  subdirectory of the font path which groff finds.  See the
	   ENVIRONMENT section in the troff(1) man page which lists the actual
	   value  of the font path.  Note that groff doesn't use the AFM files
	   (but it is a good idea to store them anyway).

	·  Register all fonts which must be downloaded to the printer  in  the
	   `devpdf/download'  file.  Only the first occurrence of this file in
	   the font path is read.  This means that you should copy the default
	   `download'  file  to	 the first directory in your font path and add
	   your fonts there.  To continue the above example we assume that the
	   PS font name for Foo-Bar-Bold.pfa is `XY-Foo-Bar-Bold' (the PS font
	   name is stored in the internalname field in	the  `FBB'  file)  and
	   belongs  to foundry `F', thus the following line should be added to
	   `download':

		  F XY-Foo-Bar-Bold Foo-Bar-Bold.pfa

	   Use a tab character to separate the fields, and the `foundry' field
	   should be null for the default foundry.

ENVIRONMENT
       GROFF_FONT_PATH
	      A	 list of directories in which to search for the devname direc‐
	      tory in addition to the default ones.   If,  in  the  `download'
	      file,  the  font	file  has  been specified with a full path, no
	      directories are searched.	 See troff(1)  and  groff_font(5)  for
	      more details.

FILES
       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/DESC
	      Device description file.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/F
	      Font description file for font F.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/U-F
	      Font  description	 file  for font F (using foundry U rather than
	      the default foundry).

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/download
	      List of downloadable fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/Foundry
	      A Perl script used during install to locate suitable fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devpdf/enc/text.enc
	      Encoding used for text fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac/pdf.tmac
	      Macros for use with gropdf; automatically loaded by troffrc.

SEE ALSO
       afmtodit(1),  groff(1),	grops(1),  troff(1),   grops(1),   pfbtops(1),
       groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7), groff_tmac(5)

Groff Version 1.22.2		7 February 2013			     GROPDF(1)
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