The output \*(Ps on stdout positions the envelope in landscape mode in the upper-left corner of the page, suitable for output on laser printers, such the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M, which feed envelopes from the left side of the manual feed tray. Command-line options are provided to allow arbitrary repositioning of the envelope image to match envelope feeders on other printers.
Before the \*(Ps file is sent to the printer, you must load the input tray with envelopes, and select manual feed from the control panel, or via suitable software commands. The accompanying scripts hp4m-envfdr(1) and hp4m-manfdr(1) can be used as an interface to ltrtops to provide automatic selection of either manual feed mode, or an envelope feeder tray.
ltrtops version 2.00 and later provides automatic resizing of the fonts used for the Air Mail, return, and to text boxes to ensure that text is not truncated. Font resizing applies only to the current text box; other boxes, and other envelopes, are not affected.
If font resizing is required, an integral point size is always chosen, to reduce font rasterization time and printer font cache memory consumption.
Dimension values must be specified as a single number with an optional fractional part, and a required two-letter unit designator, with no spaces between the number and the unit. Possible forms are:
#.##bp big point (1in = 72bp) #.##cc cicero (1cc = 12dd) #.##cm centimeter #.##dd didot point (1157dd = 1238pt) #.##in inch #.##mm millimeter (10mm = 1cm) #.##pc pica (1pc = 12pt) #.##pt point (72.27pt = 1in) #.##sp scaled point (65536sp = 1pt)
The default values are specified internally as fractions of the envelope width and height: 0.05W 0.05H 0.20W 0.20H; they are suitable for plain envelopes, but for preprinted envelopes, the more precise control provided by this option may be required.
If this option is given, it must be supplied after any -e envelope option.
The default values are specified internally as fractions of the envelope width and height: 0.02W 0.50H 0.50W 0.98H.
If this option is given, it must be supplied after any -e envelope option.
The default values are specified internally as fractions of the envelope width and height: 0.50W 0.05H 0.95W 0.50H.
If this option is given, it must be supplied after any -e envelope option.
Name Height Width Executive 7.25in 10.5in COM10 4.125in 9.5in Standard 3.625in 6.5in Monarch 3.9in 7.5in DL 110mm 220mm C5 162mm 229mm B5 176mm 250mm
When this option is given, new default bounding boxes are computed for the Air Mail, return, and to text areas; consequently, any -ba, -br, or -bt options to set bounding boxes must follow the -e option.
The following 13 fonts are available on all \*(Ps printers. The second column provides font abbreviations used by lptops(1); the third column contains ditroff(1) font abbreviations, and the fourth column, Adobe \*(Ts font abbreviations. Any of these abbreviations may be used to specify font.
The remaining fonts are available only on enhanced printers, such as the Apple LaserWriter Plus.
Note that the ditroff(1L) and \*(Ts abbreviations are identical except for the Courier and Times fonts. The \*(Ts abbreviations are based on two-letter mnemonics, where upper-case in the first letter indicates bold, and upper-case in the second letter indicates italic.
Only the Courier fonts are fixed-width fonts; the others are proportionally spaced.
Patrick Redington, Ph.D. 593 Evesham Drive Murray, UT 84107 USA Tel: +1 801 265 1614 and Nelson H. F. Beebe, Ph.D. Center for Scientific Computing Department of Mathematics University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Email: <beebe@math.utah.edu> URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe