From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 18: 2:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3345D37B43C for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4414w202579; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Groff ps bold character output Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 18:04:58 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200105040032.TAA18879@corserv.corserv.com> <20010504121618.A92641@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010504121618.A92641@itouchnz.itouch> Cc: Jonathan Chen MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050318045800.02341@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This works for me: man -t | lpr On Thursday 03 May 2001 17:16, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:32:10PM -0500, Kevin Lyons wrote: > > This is embarrassing, but I can't remember how to get groff to print > > postscript properly. I'm trying to print a man page and do: > > > > man pwd | groff > file.ps > > > > Looking at the file with ghostview shows the bold characters appearing > > twice making the whole thing gibberish. I did solve this problem in > > the past with a man page, but I've spent the last three hours trying > > to find/reinvent the procedure. > > This should work: > > zcat /usr/share/man/man1/pwd.1.gz | groff -Tps -man > file.ps -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message