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fixnt(1)

fixnt1

Filter for the windows nt postscript printer driver.

Usage

fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps

Overview

The Windows NT postscript driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils. fixnt is a filter that fixes these problems, allowing the use of psnup(1).

The filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout. It has no other form for invocation and takes no options on the command-line.

Options

fixnt

takes no options.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 11 (Bullseye): the text shown here
  • Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
  • Debian 3.0 (Woody) to Debian 2.2 (Potato)
  • Debian 2.1 (Slink)

Bugs

fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94. For a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so:

sed 's/NTPSOct94/NTPSOct95/g'

This is particularly important for Windows NT 3.5 users.

Author

fixnt was written by Holger Bauer <[email protected]>, Michael Rath <[email protected]>, and Akim Demaille <[email protected]>.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files.

Patches are always welcome; send to <[email protected]>.

From a2ps 1:4.15.6-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.