PSDMAN(8)PSDMAN(8)NAMEpsdman - TRANSCRIPT document manager for POSTSCRIPT printers
SYNOPSISpsdman [ -rfGFaL ][ -Pprintername ][ -pprog ][ -nuser ][ -hhost ][ file
]
DESCRIPTIONpsdman is the TRANSCRIPT document manager, invoked by the printer
interface script, psinterface (System V), or psint.sh (BSD), after the
printer interface program has been invoked by the print spooler.
psdman is responsible for reading the the document file to be printed,
and taking the appropriate action to prepare the file for printing on a
POSTSCRIPT printer. psdman distinguishes between text files (which get
formatted) and POSTSCRIPT print files. If the input to psdman does not
begin with the POSTSCRIPT magic number - the first two characters being
``%!'' - psdman will invoke enscript to create a listing of the file.
If the first bytes of the input file are ``%!PS-Adobe-'', and if the
printer options so specify, psdman will also will perform various
document management tasks, such as page reversal, font and other
resource downloading, and printer-specific feature inclusion (manual
feed, duplex, paper tray setting, etc.) before printing, if so
requested. psdman supports LZW compression and ASCII85 encodingfor
Level 2 printers.
The possible options are:
-r never reverse.
-f continue processing despite errors.
-G do not attempt to rearrange fonts for more efficient
downloading.
-F turn off parsing. If this is specified, psdman will simply pass
the data through untouched. This means that it won't attempt to
determine whether a file is PostScript or not, either.
-a strip out comments. If this is specified, psdman will strip out
any line that begins with '%'.
-L landscape. Psdman will cause the input to be printed rotated 90
degrees. It will not attempt to make sure the resulting image
will fit on the page.
-P printername
printername is the name of the POSTSCRIPT printer for which
output is intended.
-p program
program ( BSD only) is the name of the program through which
psdman was invoked. Typically this is psi0.
-h host
host ( BSD only) is the name of the host from which the print
job originated.
-n user
user ( BSD only) is the name of the user for whom the print job
is being printed.
file file is the name of the document file to be processed by psdman.
ENVIRONMENT
There are a number of environment variables used by psdman These are
listed below. The psinterface (System V) or psint.sh (BSD) script sets
the initial value for each, and the printer options file can be used to
change the value for a particular printer. Note that Bourne shell
syntax must be used in the printer options file. For BSD, this file is
in the spool directory; for System V, look in
/usr/spool/lp/transcript/ps.opt. Many of the variables take a number
value, and specify whether an action should take place or not; 1 means
do the action, and 0 means don't do it.
REVERSE=number
Reverse the page order
VERBOSELOG=number
Print verbose log messages
COMPRESS=number
Perform LZW compression on file
PSTEMPDIR=Directory name
Directory for temp files
One could turn off page reversal for a particular printer by adding
this line to the printer.opt file:
REVERSE=0
FILES
/usr/lib/transcript/bogusmsg.ps
POSTSCRIPT file for "spooled binary file rejected" message to
printer
/tmp/t*
Temporary file to format text files.
SEE ALSOtranscript(1), pscomm(1), lp(1), enscript(1).
System V Line Printer Spooling Utilities
AUTHOR
Adobe Systems Incorporated
NOTES
POSTSCRIPT is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
TRANSCRIPT is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Adobe Systems 5 March 1991 PSDMAN(8)
