prov-2.2 -- Overlay printing utility for UNIX-like systems

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What is prov2 ?

prov-1.x worked with EUC-JP for encoding.
prov-2.x works with UTF-8 for encoding now :)

Prerequisite

Download

• prov-2.2.tar.gz 2017.06.25 (LATEST)
• prov-2.1.tar.gz 2017.06.24
• prov-2.0.tar.gz 2013.07.15
• prov-1.1.tar.gz 2008.05.27
• prov-1.0.tar.gz 2003.08.11

Install

• edit Makefile to set install directory to PROV2DIR macro. default install directory is ~/prov2.
• make
• make install
• edit ~/.profile to set install directory to PROV2DIR environment variable.
  ex. PROV2DIR=~/prov2; export PROV2DIR
• edit ~/.profile to set ${PROV2DIR}/bin to PATH environment variable.
  ex. PATH="${PATH}:${PROV2DIR}/bin"; export PATH

Sample print(1)

  prov2 -text mesh.ov README | lpr -Pps-printer

  or

  cat README | prov2 -text mesh.ov - | lpr -Pps-printer
  

default point of ank is 12point and default point of kanji char is 12point too. you can change default point by setting environment variable.

• PROV2_ANK_POINT (default 12)
• PROV2_KANJI_POINT (default 12)
• PROV2_ANK_XGAP (default 0)
• PROV2_ANK_YGAP (default 0)
• PROV2_KANJI_XGAP (default 2.4)
• PROV2_KANJI_YGAP (default 0)

Sample print(2)

  prov2 -csv table.ov member.def member.dat | lpr -Pps-printer

  or

  cat member.dat | prov2 -csv table.ov member.def - | lpr -Pps-printer
  

Adjust setting

% start user definition
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < X unit length (point) >
%
% default is 72/10 point (=1/10 inch).
%
/SYS_Char {72.00 10 div} def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < Y unit length (point) >
%
% default is 72/6 point (=1/6 inch).
%
/SYS_Line {72.00  6 div} def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < X bias (Char) >
%
% move page to right : plus value
% move page to left  : minus value
%
% for FUJITSU XL-5340
%/SYS_Xbias {2 SYS_Char mul} def
%
/SYS_Xbias {0 SYS_Char mul} def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < Y bias (Line) >
% 
% move page to down : plus value
% move page to up   : minus value
%
% for FUJITSU XL-5340
%/SYS_Ybias {-2 SYS_Line mul} def
%
/SYS_Ybias {0 SYS_Line mul} def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < max printable width (Char) >
%
/SYS_MaxWidth 80 def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% < max printable height (Line) >
%
/SYS_MaxHeight 66 def
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% end user definition

Customize

• cp ${PROV2DIR}/etc/a4v.ps ./another.ps
• vi ./another.ps # edit for another paper
• PROV2PS=./another.ps prov2 -text foo.ov foo.txt | lpr -Pps-printer

Overlay definition

• DASH setLineStyle (DASH is 0 or 1 or ... )
  set line style (solid, dash etc). DASH=0 mean solid line, DASH>=1 mean dash line.
• GRAY setGrayScale (GRAY is 0 to 1)
  set gray scale. 0=black -> 0.5=gray -> 1=white.
• X0 Y0 X1 Y1 WIDTH drawLine
  draw line between (X0,Y0) to (X1,Y1) with WIDTH width. (X0,Y0),(X1,Y1) are (character,line) coordinate. WIDTH is point.
• X0 Y0 X1 Y1 WIDTH XDELTA YDELTA REPEAT drawRepeatLine
  repeat to draw line from (X0,Y0)-(X1,Y1) REPEAT times with increasing XDELTA and YDELTA.
• X0 Y0 X1 Y1 WIDTH drawBox
  draw box with WIDTH width.
• X0 Y0 X1 Y1 fillBox
  draw box and fill inside.
• POINT FONT_{NORMAL|ITALIC|BOLD|BOLDITALIC} setChar
  set ank charset.
• POINT KFONT_{RYUMIN|RYUMIN_V|GOTHIC|GOTHIC_V} setKanjiChar
  set kanji charset.
• GAP setXgap
  set x-gap between chars.
• GAP setYgap
  set y-gap between chars.
• X Y (TEXT) drawText
  draw text with ank charset. (X,Y) mean (left,top) of charcter.
• X Y <KANJI_TEXT> drawText
  draw text with kanji charset. (X,Y) mean (left,top) of charcter.

Format definition

record_no field_no point column line x_gap y_gap

• record_no : set record number. usually record_no is 1, but a page is formatted from multi record, over 2 are used too.
• field_no : set field number from csv data file record.
• point : set character point.
• column : set print column position.
• line : set print line position.
• x_gap : set x gap between chars
• y_gap : set y gap between chars

Csv data file

• field separater of csv data file is TAB.
• a field can't hold ank/kanji together.