Reference: dpost
Author: Daniel Gilly & the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates
Date: 1998-08-06T21:52:40Z

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| Chapter 2 UNIX Commands |

## dpost

    dpost [options] [files]

A postprocessor that translates troff-formatted `files` into PostScript for printing.

### Options

-

  Read the standard input.

-c `n`

  Print `n` copies of each page (default is 1).

-e 0 | 1 | 2

  Set text encoding to 0 (default), 1, or 2. Higher encoding reduces the output size and speeds printing, but may be less reliable.

-F `dir`

  Set the font directory to `dir` (default is /usr/lib/font).

-H `dir`

  Set the host-resident font directory to `dir`. Files there must describe PostScript fonts and have filenames corresponding to a two-character troff font.

-L `file`

  Set the PostScript prologue to `file` (default is /usr/lib/postscript/dpost.ps).

-m `scale`

  Increase (multiply) the size of logical pages by factor `scale` (default is 1.0).

-n `n`

  Print `n` logical pages on each sheet of output (default is 1).

-o `list`

  Print only pages contained in comma-separated `list`. A page range is specified by `n-m`.

-O

  Omit PostScript pictures from output. Useful when running in a networked environment.

-p `layout`

  Specify `layout` to be either portrait (long side is vertical; also the default) or landscape (long side is horizontal). `layout` can be abbreviated to p or l.

-T `device`

  Use `device` to best describe available PostScript fonts. Default is post, with dpost reading binary files in /usr/lib/font/devpost. Use of -T is discouraged.

-w `n`

  Draw troff graphics (e.g., pic, tbl) using lines that are `n` points thick (default is 0.3).

-x `n`

  Offset the x-coordinate of the origin `n` inches to the right (if `n` is positive).

-y `n`

  Offset the y-coordinate of the origin `n` inches down (if `n` is positive). Default origin is the upper-left corner of the page.

### Example

>     pic file | tbl | eqn | troff -ms -Tpost | dpost -c2

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