Apsfilter Apsfilter is the number one magic filter for printing under Unix environment.
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Apsfilter is the number one magic filter for printing under Unix environment. Apsfilter is the number one magic filter for printing under Unix environment. What does apsfilter stand for? Apsfilter Prints So Fine, It Leads To Extraordinary Results. Apsfilter is highly configurable and most flexible by global and printer dependend config files and allowing users to choose between different print options with lpr on the commandline to get easy control over layout, speed and quality of the printing pro It runs on all flavours of Unix which have at least the original BSD compatible lpd(8) or LPRng installed as line printer scheduler.Apsfilter supports PS (Postscript) printer and non-PS capable printer by using Ghostscript as PS emulator. So if you have a non-expensive color DeskJet printer, Apsfilter and Ghostscript enhance your printers capabilities, that you'll get a Color Postscript Printer in return for free ! Printing on locally connected (serial, parallel, USB) and on network printer like Unix-, Windows-, Novell and AppleTalk remote printer is supported.Audio Processing: The newest version is also capable of playing different audio file formats. Then the lineprinter scheduler acts as a local or remote music jukebox.Full control over printing process by easy guessable commandline options. You can mix different file types on the commandline no matter if they are compressed or not. Example: lpr -C photo:glossy:color file.ps.bz2 file.dvi.gz file.jpgNew tools: aps2file allows you to print to a file via apsfilter, apspreview previews files as generated by apsfilter using gv, kghostview or ghostview, apsfilter-bug assists you in doing bug- and problem reports.Easy integration into applications since lpr can be executed with a lot of options (see below) that influence quality, style and layout of the printing process.File type support: 11 archive formats for which it generates a list of contents (ar, arc, arj, Microsoft cab, cpio, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip, zoo), 6 compression types which apsfilter automatically unpacks to autodetect the file type (bzip2, compress, freeze, gzip, lzop, pack), 34 file types which it recognizes automatically even if compressed, see above (ascii, bmp, dvi, fbm, fig, fits, gif, g3fax, html, iff ilbm, jpeg, Kodak photo, mgr, miff, pam, pgm, pbm, pnm, ppm, pdf, png, PS, rle, sgi, sketch, sunraster, targa, tiff, roff, Windows wmf, Word Perfect graphics, xcf, xpm, xwd). Audio file formats MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Wave.Other outstanding capabilities of apsfilter are duplex printing capabilities with PS printer, printer driven by ghostscript (if supported by gs driver) and a so called pseudo duplex mode that works with all printers. You get a magic cookie via e-mail, which allows you to easily restart the printing process after turning around the paper.Over 40 Apsfilter (lpr -C/Z) commandline options: Quality: draft, low, medium, high, photo, uni | bi (-directional sweeps), Paper: plain, coated, glossy, premium, trans, Color: color, gray, mono, Method: auto, ascii (force text mode), raw (uninterpreted), Paper size: a3, a4, legal, ledger, tabloid, Filter for texts: a2ps, mpage, enscript, recode, Printer tray: tray0..tray9, Style for ascii: pretty, header, noheader, border, noborder (incluences options used for a2ps and friends), Pages per sheet: 1pps, 2pps, 4pps, 8pps, Orientation: landscape, portrait, book, shortbind, longbind, Duplex printing: simplex, duplex, Time- and CPU saver: copies=N.

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