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GROPDF(1) General Commands Manual GROPDF(1)
gropdf - PDF driver for groff
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.
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.
-d Include debug information as comments within the PDF. Also
produces 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,
usually 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.
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 multiple 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 supported 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
character 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/local/share/groff/1.22.3/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 (spaces are not
allowed); 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; currently, 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’
setcmykcolor, 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
supported.
\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
functionality.
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
command. 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 proportion 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 boundary, otherwise any text output by the heading or
footing macro will be marked as part of the ‘hot spot’. To
stop this happening 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
outputs 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).
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
preceded 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 ‘Fcq] 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.
GROFF_FONT_PATH
A list of directories in which to search for the devname
directory 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.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/DESC
Device description file.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/F
Font description file for font F.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/U-F
Font description file for font F (using foundry U rather than
the default foundry).
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/download
List of downloadable fonts.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/Foundry
A Perl script used during install to locate suitable fonts.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf/enc/text.enc
Encoding used for text fonts.
/usr/local/share/groff/1.22.3/tmac/pdf.tmac
Macros for use with gropdf; automatically loaded by troffrc.
afmtodit(1), groff(1), grops(1), troff(1), grops(1), pfbtops(1),
groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7), groff_tmac(5)
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