%%name: a2ps

%%short-description: Any to PostScript filter

%%full-description: Program started as a text to PostScript converter,
with pretty printing and all the expected features of this kind of
program, but it can now handle other file types (PostScript, Texinfo,
DVI, web-authoring, PDF, etc.) nprovided you have the necessary tools.

While highly configurable, everything was designed so that even a
novice can do complicated PostScript manipulations. For instance, the
program can delegate the processing of some files to other filters
(such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip,etc.) which allows a uniform
treatment (n-up, page selection, duples, etc.) of heterogeneous files
It also includes support for a wide range of programming languages,
encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), medias, and Native Language
Support (NLS).

%%category: printing, graphics, editing, word-processing

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Akim Demaille <akim@freefriends.org>

%%updated: 30 Mar 2000

%%keywords: printing, graphics, PostScript, filter, Texinfo, text, DVI

%%interface: Command line

%%programs: card     - pretty prints '--help' from programs
	    fixnt    - fixes Windows NT Postscript files
	    fixps    - fixes most common problems in PostScript files
	    pdiff    - prints a comparison between two files
	    psmandup - eases Duplex printing on Simplex printers
	    psset    - inserts special PostScript requests
	    Ogonkify

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps

%%support: 

%%doc: User information from
http://www.infres.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/doc-4.13/a2ps_toc.html

%%developers: Akim Demaille <akim@freefriends.org>, Miguel Satana
<Miguel.Santana@st.com>

%%contributors: Juliusz Chroboczek <jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Paolo Matos
<psjm@students.fct.unl.pt>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Dirk
Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

%%sponsors: 

%%source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/a2ps/

%%debian: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search-packages/

%%redhat: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/

%%repository:

%%related: Enscript, Ghostscript, Ghostview, GNU Trueprint

%%source-language: C, /bin/sh shell scripts 

%%supported-languages:

%%use-requirements: PSUtils (psnup, psselect, etc.)

%%build-prerequisites:

%%weak-prerequisites: Ghostscript, GV, gzip, ImageMagick, bzip2,
acroread, groff, LaTeX, dvips, makeinfo

%%source-prerequisites:

%%version: 4.13 released Feb 2000

%%announce-list: a2ps@gnu.org

%%announce-news:

%%help-list: a2ps@gnu.org

%%help-news:

%%dev-list:

%%dev-news:

%%bug-list: a2ps-bugs@gnu.org







 





