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printing style, font
From: |
Seth Rothenberg |
Subject: |
printing style, font |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:42:37 -0400 |
Greetings,
I searched the archive, found some stuff that's useful
but not yet exactly what I am looking for.
I have been charged with taking some reports that were designed
to be line-printed in landscape (i.e., 132 characters wide),
and magically get them into tiff in portrait format....so
they can be viewed by a Medical Coder in another location.
It's a good thing I believe in Open Source.
I have been using a command like
a2ps -1 -l132 -ooutput.ps output
then
gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=output.tiff output.ps
What I get is very close, but needs fine-tuning.
I need a document that can be viewed on the screen
for doing data entry. So, I need to make this report a bit
easier to read. Ideas:
-bold - ( um, I found this in the docs, did it once, lost it....will
search again :-)
-interline spacing - makes it easier to pick out data
(I saw something for this in the docs for enscript, but I don't think
that's a better tool)
-eliminate all headers/trailers (like --noheaders)
-eliminate borders so font can be bigger (have not found this yet).
Switching font may be helpful, eg, an Arial.....but I haven't figured
that out yet.
I would appreciate any pointers to more detailed examples (on web or
even a book).
Thanks
Seth
- printing style, font,
Seth Rothenberg <=