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NAME
mptool - a Motif window-based front-end to the mp POSTSCRIPT
pretty printer program.
SYNOPSIS
The mptool program has the same command line options as the
mp program. See those manual pages for more details.
DESCRIPTION
The mp program is used to pretty print mail, news articles
or ordinary text files. There are now lots of command line
options to mp which can be used to setup various options to
change the way the text is output. These are not always easy
to remember. The mptool program is provided as a simpler
means of setting these options and thereby making it easier
to print your files in the desired format.
It is also possible to select text in another Motif
application, and drag and drop that text over the mptool
open window, and it will be automatically printed out using
the current settings.
OPTIONS
The mptool program has the same command line options as the
mp program. See those manual pages for more details.
RESOURCES
On startup, mptool look for various X resources which by
default are stored in $HOME/.mpdefaults. Note these resource
names will be prepended with mptool. All of these X
resources are described in the mp manual pages.
USAGE
mptool operates via a set of graphical items both in the
main window and the various option sheets. Commonly used
operations are easily accessable via options in the main
window; the remainder are on the option sheets. Each option
equates to an mp command line option. This section gives the
match up between these graphical options and the equivalent
mp command line option. Refer to the mp manuals pages for
more details on each option.
Filenames: The file(s) to be printed.
Input type: Nothing, "-news", "-postscript" or "-
text", depending upon the setting.
Output type: Nothing, "-landscape" or an Organiser
type (see below).
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Organiser: "-filofax", "-franklin", "-proplan", "-
timeman", "-tsintl" or "-tspartner"
depending upon the organiser type
selected.
Paper Size: Nothing, "-a4" or "-us".
Subject: Nothing or "-subject <subject>".
Copies: "-copies #".
Number of Sides:
Nothing or "-duplex".
Clicking on the Print button causes mptool to execute an mp
job with the various command line settings. Clicking on the
Reset button will reset all the options to their default
values.
Note that the Filename: field can contain multiple
filenames. These should be separated by spaces. If any of
the filenames contain a space character, then this filename
needs to be quoted.
There are various option property windows. The Header
options window contains the following options:
Print all headers:
"-allhdrs".
Headers to Print:
"-addhdr <header>" or "-remhdr <header>"
depending upon whether the header is a
new one added by the user, or a default
one that was removed from the initial
list.
The Input options window contains the following options:
Prologue Name: nothing or "-prologue <name>".
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Mail folder Nothing or "-folder".
Mail digest Nothing or "-digest".
Elm mail file: nothing or "-elm".
Use From header:
nothing or "-from".
Use Content-Length: field:
nothing or "-content".
Use file last modification time:
nothing or "-modtime".
The Output options window contains the following options:
Printer Name: "-printer" or "-printer <name> depending
upon whether a printer name was given.
Line Length: "-linelength #".
Page Length: "-pagelength #".
Output to BSD printer system:
"-bsdprint".
The Printing options window contains the following options:
Columns per Page:
"-columns #".
Spaces per Tab Character:
"-tab #".
Margins: "-top #", "-left #", "-bottom #" and "-
right #".
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Print header page
Nothing or "-banner".
Wrap words onto next line of
nothing or "-wrap".
Flip banner headings:
nothing or "-flip".
Force new page:
nothing or "-forcepage".
Number each line of output:
nothing or "-number".
Adjust reverse page for duplex printing
nothing or "-tumble".
The User Name options window contains the following options:
Alias Name: "-alias name".
Characters in User Name:
"-chars #".
Words in User Name:
"-words #".
These options will only be applyed if you click on the Apply
button on the appropriate options sheet. Clicking on the
Reset button on that property sheet, resets those property
sheet values back to their default values. Clicking on the
Save as Defaults option in the Options menu, causes all the
current option sheet settings to be the defaults the next
time mptool is started.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The default output printer is determined by looking at the.
PRINTER environment variable for BSD systems or the LPDEST
environment variable for System V systems.
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An alternative file containing the mptool X resources can be
given with the MPDEFAULTS environment variable.
FILES
$HOME/.mpdefaults
X resource initialisation file.
BINDIR/mptool
executable
SEE ALSO
mp(1), lp(1), lpr(1)
AUTHOR
Rich Burridge. PHONE: (USA) (415) 336 6261 MAIL:
richb@Eng.Sun.COM
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