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- Gif2Epsn
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- Program to dump images saved as GIF files on Epson type printers.
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- Usage:
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- Usage: Gif2Epsn [-q] [-d DitherSize] [-t BWThreshold] [-m Mapping] [-i] [-n]
- [-p PrinterName] [-h] GifFile
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- If no GifFile is given, Gif2Epsn will try to read stdin for GIF file.
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- Memory required:
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- Screen.
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- Options:
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- 1. [-q] : quite mode. Default off on MSDOS, on on unix. Controls printout
- of running scan lines. Use -q- to turn off.
- 2. [-d DitherSize] : Sets size of dithering matrix, where DitherSize can be
- 2,3 or 4 only (for 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 dithering matrices). Default is 2.
- Note image will be displayed in this mode only if Mapping (see -m)
- selected this mode.
- 3. [-t BWThreshold] : Sets threshold level for B&W mapping in percent.
- This threshold level is used in the different mappings as selected via -m.
- Default is 19%.
- 4. [-m mapping] : Select method to map colors to B&W. Mapping can be:
- 0 : Every none background color is considered foreground (white color but
- is drawn as black by printer, unless -i is specified).
- 1 : 0.3 * RED + 0.59 * GREEN + 0.11 * YELLOW > BWThreshold is considered
- white color.
- 2 : Colors are mapped as in 1, and use dithering of size as defined using
- -d option. BWthreshold is used here as scaler.
- Default is option 0.
- 5. [-i] : Invert the image, i.e. black -> white, white -> black.
- 6. [-n] : Nicer image. Uses double density feature of Epson printer, to make
- nicer result. This takes more time (and kill your ink cartridge
- faster...) but results are usually better.
- 7. [-p PrinterName] : by default output is sent to LPT1:. If other device
- or disk file is required, they should be specified here. Note
- devices are NOT specifed with colon, so to use LPT2: instead:
- '-p lpt2' is required. Nothing is sent to stdout. If a disk file is
- created: '-p file1.eps' then it can be printed any time by the
- copy command: 'copy file1.eps prn:/b'. Note the /b for binary copy.
- 8. [-h] : print one command line help, similar to Usage above.
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- Notes:
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- The output has aspect ratio of 1, so square image, will be square in its
- hardcopy as well.
- The widest image can be printed is 640 pixels, on 8 inches paper. You
- probably will need to flip wider images, if height is less than that:
- 'gifflip -r x29.gif | gif2epsn'. Wider images will be clipped.
- This utility dumps output to a file/printer directly. I guess it will have
- only a limited usage on unix system...
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