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Option details
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Many of the parameterless options listed here can be turned off by
suffixing the option with a zero (`0'); for instance, to turn off page
reversal, use `-r0'. Such options are marked with a trailing `*'.
`-'
Read additional options from standard input after processing the
command line.
`--help'
Print a usage message and exit.
`--version'
Print the version number and exit.
`-a*'
Conserve memory by making three passes over the DVI file instead
of two and only loading those characters actually used. Generally
only useful on machines with a very limited amount of memory, like
some PCs.
`-A'
Print only the odd pages. This option uses TeX page numbers, not
physical page numbers.
`-b NUM'
Generate NUM copies of each page, but duplicating the page body
rather than using the `/#copies' PostScript variable. This can be
useful in conjunction with a header file setting `bop-hook' to do
color separations or other neat tricks.
`-B'
Print only the even pages. This option uses TeX page numbers, not
physical page numbers.
`-c NUM'
Generate NUM consecutive copies of every page, i.e., the output is
uncollated. This merely sets the builtin PostScript variable
`/#copies'.
`-C NUM'
Generate NUM copies, but collated (by replicating the data in the
PostScript file). Slower than the `-c' option, but easier on the
hands, and faster than resubmitting the same PostScript file
multiple times.
`-d NUM'
Set the debug flags, showing what Dvips (thinks it) is doing.
This will work unless Dvips has been compiled without the `DEBUG'
option (not recommended). Note: Debug options, for the possible
values of NUM. Use `-d -1' as the first option for maximum output.
`-D NUM'
Set both the horizontal and vertical resolution to NUM, given in
dpi (dots per inch). This affects the choice of bitmap fonts that
are loaded and also the positioning of letters in resident
PostScript fonts. Must be between 10 and 10000. This affects both
the horizontal and vertical resolution. If a high resolution
(something greater than 400 dpi, say) is selected, the `-Z' flag
should probably also be used. If you are using fonts made with
Metafont, such as Computer Modern, `mktexpk' needs to know about
the value for NUM that you use or Metafont will fail. See the file
`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf' for a list of resolutions and mode
names for most devices.
`-e NUM'
Maximum drift in pixels of each character from its `true'
resolution-independent position on the page. The default value of
this parameter is resolution dependent (it is the number of
entries in the list [100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000,
1200, 1600, 2000, 2400, 2800, 3200, ...] that are less than or
equal to the resolution in dots per inch). Allowing individual
characters to `drift' from their correctly rounded positions by a
few pixels, while regaining the true position at the beginning of
each new word, improves the spacing of letters in words.
`-E*'
Generate an EPSF file with a tight bounding box. This only looks
at marks made by characters and rules, not by any included
graphics. In addition, it gets the glyph metrics from the TFM
file, so characters that print outside their enclosing TFM box may
confuse it. In addition, the bounding box might be a bit too
loose if the character glyph has significant left or right side
bearings. Nonetheless, this option works well enough for creating
small EPSF files for equations or tables or the like. (Of course,
Dvips output, especially when using bitmap fonts, is
resolution-dependent and thus does not make very good EPSF files,
especially if the images are to be scaled; use these EPSF files
with care.) For multiple page input files, also specify `-i' to
get each page as a separate EPSF file; otherwise, all the pages
are overlaid in the single output file.
`-f*'
Run as a filter. Read the DVI file from standard input and write
the PostScript to standard output. The standard input must be
seekable, so it cannot be a pipe. If your input must be a pipe,
write a shell script that copies the pipe output to a temporary
file and then points Dvips at this file. This option also
disables the automatic reading of the `PRINTER' environment
variable; use `-P$PRINTER' after the `-f' to read it anyway. It
also turns off the automatic sending of control-D if it was turned
on with the `-F' option or in the configuration file; use `-F'
after the `-f' to send it anyway.
`-F*'
Write control-D (ASCII code 4) as the very last character of the
PostScript file. This is useful when Dvips is driving the printer
directly instead of working through a spooler, as is common on
personal systems. On systems shared by more than one person, this
is not recommended.
`-h NAME'
Prepend NAME as an additional header file, or, if NAME is `-',
suppress all header files. Any definitions in the header file get
added to the PostScript `userdict'.
`-i*'
Make each section be a separate file; a "section" is a part of the
document processed independently, most often created to avoid
memory overflow. The filenames are created replacing the suffix
of the supplied output file name by a three-digit sequence number.
This option is most often used in conjunction with the `-S'
option which sets the maximum section length in pages; if `-i' is
specified and `-S' is not, each page is output as a separate file.
For instance, some phototypesetters cannot print more than ten or
so consecutive pages before running out of steam; these options
can be used to automatically split a book into ten-page sections,
each to its own file.
`-j*'
Download only needed characters from Type 1 fonts. This is the
default in the current release. Some debugging flags trace this
operation (Note: Debug options.). You can also control partial
downloading on a per-font basis (*note psfonts.map::.).
`-k*'
Print crop marks. This option increases the paper size (which
should be specified, either with a paper size special or with the
`-T' option) by a half inch in each dimension. It translates each
page by a quarter inch and draws cross-style crop marks. It is
mostly useful with typesetters that can set the page size
automatically. This works by downloading `crop.pro'.
`-K*'
Remove comments in included PostScript graphics, font files, and
headers; only necessary to get around bugs in spoolers or
PostScript post-processing programs. Specifically, the `%%Page'
comments, when left in, often cause difficulties. Use of this
flag can cause other graphics to fail, however, since the
PostScript header macros from some software packages read portion
the input stream line by line, searching for a particular comment.
`-l [=]NUM'
The last page printed will be the first one numbered NUM. Default
is the last page in the document. If NUM is prefixed by an equals
sign, then it (and the argument to the `-p' option, if specified)
is treated as a physical (absolute) page number, rather than a
value to compare with the TeX `\count0' values stored in the DVI
file. Thus, using `-l =9' will end with the ninth page of the
document, no matter what the pages are actually numbered.
`-m*'
Specify manual feed, if supported by the output device.
`-mode MODE'
Use MODE as the Metafont device name for path searching and font
generation. This overrides any value from configuration files.
With the default paths, explicitly specifying the mode also makes
the program assume the fonts are in a subdirectory named MODE.
Note: TeX directory structure.
If Metafont does not understand the MODE name, see Note: Unable to
generate fonts.
`-M*'
Turns off automatic font generation (`mktexpk'). If `mktexpk',
the invocation is appended to a file `missfont.log' (by default)
in the current directory. You can then execute the log file to
create the missing files after fixing the problem. If the current
directory is not writable and the environment variable or
configuration file value `TEXMFOUTPUT' is set, its value is used.
Otherwise, nothing is written. The name `missfont.log' is
overridden by the `MISSFONT_LOG' environment variable or
configuration file value.
`-n NUM'
Print at most NUM pages. Default is 100000.
`-N*'
Turns off generation of structured comments such as `%%Page'; this
may be necessary on some systems that try to interpret PostScript
comments in weird ways, or on some PostScript printers. Old
versions of TranScript in particular cannot handle modern
Encapsulated PostScript. Beware: This also disables page
movement, etc., in PostScript viewers such as Ghostview.
`-o NAME'
Send output to the file NAME. If `-o' is specified without NAME,
the default is `FILE.ps' where the input DVI file was `FILE.dvi'.
If `-o' isn't given at all, the configuration file default is used.
If NAME is `-', output goes to standard output. If the first
character of NAME is `!' or `|', then the remainder will be used
as an argument to `popen'; thus, specifying `|lpr' as the output
file will automatically queue the file for printing as usual.
(The MS-DOS version will print to the local printer device `PRN'
when NAME is `|lpr' and a program by that name cannot be found.)
`-o' disables the automatic reading of the `PRINTER' environment
variable, and turns off the automatic sending of control-D. See
the `-f' option for how to override this.
`-O X-OFFSET,Y-OFFSET'
Move the origin by X-OFFSET,Y-OFFSET, a comma-separated pair of
dimensions such as `.1in,-.3cm' (Note: papersize special.). The
origin of the page is shifted from the default position (of one
inch down, one inch to the right from the upper left corner of the
paper) by this amount. This is usually best specified in the
printer-specific configuration file.
This is useful for a printer that consistently offsets output
pages by a certain amount. You can use the file `testpage.tex' to
determine the correct value for your printer. Be sure to do
several runs with the same `O' value--some printers vary widely
from run to run.
If your printer offsets every other page consistently, instead of
every page, your best recourse is to use `bop-hook' (Note:
PostScript hooks.).
`-p [=]NUM'
The first page printed will be the first one numbered NUM. Default
is the first page in the document. If NUM is prefixed by an
equals sign, then it (and the argument to the `-l' option, if
specified) is treated as a physical (absolute) page number, rather
than a value to compare with the TeX `\count0' values stored in the
DVI file. Thus, using `-p =3' will start with the third page of
the document, no matter what the pages are actually numbered.
`-pp FIRST-LAST'
Print pages FIRST through LAST; equivalent to `-p FIRST -l LAST',
except that multiple `-pp' options accumulate, unlike `-p' and
`-l'. The `-' separator can also be `:'.
`-P PRINTER'
Read the configuration file `config.PRINTER' (`PRINTER.cfg' on
MS-DOS), which can set the output name (most likely `o |lpr
-PPRINTER'), resolution, Metafont mode, and perhaps font paths and
other printer-specific defaults. It works best to put sitewide
defaults in the one master `config.ps' file and only things that
vary printer to printer in the `config.PRINTER' files; `config.ps'
is read before `config.PRINTER'.
If no `-P' or `-o' is given, the environment variable `PRINTER' is
checked. If that variable exists, and a corresponding
`config.PRINTER' (`PRINTER.cfg' on MS-DOS) file exists, it is read.
Note: Configuration file searching.
`-q*'
Run quietly. Don't chatter about pages converted, etc. to standard
output; report no warnings (only errors) to standard error.
`-r*'
Output pages in reverse order. By default, page 1 is output first.
`-R'
Run securely. This disables shell command execution in `\special'
(via ``', Note: Dynamic creation of graphics.) and config files
(via the `E' option, Note: Configuration file commands.), pipes
as output files, and opening of any absolute filenames.
`-s*'
Enclose the output in a global save/restore pair. This causes the
file to not be truly conformant, and is thus not recommended, but
is useful if you are driving a deficient printer directly and thus
don't care too much about the portability of the output to other
environments.
`-S NUM'
Set the maximum number of pages in each `section'. This option is
most commonly used with the `-i' option; see its description above
for more information.
`-t PAPERTYPE'
Set the paper type to PAPERTYPE, usually defined in one of the
configuration files, along with the appropriate PostScript code to
select it (Note: Config file paper sizes.). You can also
specify a PAPERTYPE of `landscape', which rotates a document by 90
degrees. To rotate a document whose paper type is not the
default, you can use the `-t' option twice, once for the paper
type, and once for `landscape'.
`-T HSIZE,VSIZE'
Set the paper size to (HSIZE,VSIZE), a comma-separated pair of
dimensions such as `.1in,-.3cm' (Note: papersize special.). It
overrides any paper size special in the DVI file.
`-U*'
Disable a PostScript virtual memory-saving optimization that
stores the character metric information in the same string that is
used to store the bitmap information. This is only necessary when
driving the Xerox 4045 PostScript interpreter, which has a bug
that puts garbage on the bottom of each character. Not
recommended unless you must drive this printer.
`-V*'
Download non-resident PostScript fonts as bitmaps. This requires
use of `mtpk' or `gsftopk' or `pstopk' or some combination thereof
to generate the required bitmap fonts; these programs are supplied
with Dvips. The bitmap must be put into `psfonts.map' as the
downloadable file for that font. This is useful only for those
fonts for which you do not have real outlines, being downloaded to
printers that have no resident fonts, i.e., very rarely.
`-x NUM'
Set the x magnification ratio to NUM/1000. Overrides the
magnification specified in the DVI file. Must be between 10 and
100000. It is recommended that you use standard magstep values
(1095, 1200, 1440, 1728, 2074, 2488, 2986, and so on) to help
reduce the total number of PK files generated. NUM may be a real
number, not an integer, for increased precision.
`-X NUM'
Set the horizontal resolution in dots per inch to NUM.
`-y NUM'
Set the y magnification ratio to NUM/1000. See `-x' above.
`-Y NUM'
Set the vertical resolution in dots per inch to NUM.
`-z*'
Pass `html' hyperdvi specials through to the output for eventual
distillation into PDF. This is not enabled by default to avoid
including the header files unnecessarily, and use of temporary
files in creating the output. Note: Hypertext.
`-Z*'
Compress bitmap fonts in the output file, thereby reducing the
size of what gets downloaded. Especially useful at high
resolutions or when very large fonts are used. May slow down
printing, especially on early 68000-based PostScript printers.
Generally recommend today, and can be enabled in the configuration
file (Note: Configuration file commands.).
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