gif2epsn - Program to dump images saved as GIF files on Epson type printers.

gif2epsn [-q] [-d dither] [-t bw] [-m map] [-i] [-n] [-p printer] [-h] gif-file

A program to dump images saved as GIF files on Epson type printers.

If no gif-file is given, Gif2Epsn will try to read a GIF file from stdin.

Quiet mode. Default off on MSDOS, on under UNIX. Controls printout of running scan lines. Use -q- to invert. 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 the mapping option (see -m) selected this mode. 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%. Select method to map colors to B&W. Mapping can be: Every none background color is considered foreground (white color but is drawn as black by printer, unless -i is specified). If 0.3 * RED + 0.59 * GREEN + 0.11 * YELLOW > BW the pixel is considered white color. Colors are mapped as in 1, and use dithering of size as defined using -d option. BWthreshold is used here as scaler. The default is option 0. Invert the image, i.e. black -> white, white -> black. Nicer image. Uses double-density feature of Epson printer. This takes more time (and kills your ink cartridge faster...) but results are usually better. Under Unix, output goes to stdout by default; under DOS, the default is LPT1:. With this switch you can specify the output target. print one line of command line help, similar to Usage above.

The output has an aspect ratio of 1, so a square image will be square in hardcopy as well.

The widest image can be printed is 640 pixels, on 8 inch 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.

gif2bgi(1), gif2herc(1), gif2iris(1), gif2ps(1), gif2rgb(1), gif2rle(1), gif2x11(1), gifasm(1), gifbg(1), gifburst(1), gifclip(1), gifclrmp(1), gifcolor(1), gifcomb(1), gifcompose(1), giffix(1), giffiltr(1), gifflip(1), gifhisto(1), gifinter(1), gifinto(1), gifovly(1), gifpos(1), gifrotat(1), gifrsize(1), gifspnge(1), giftext(1), gifwedge(1), icon2gif(1), raw2gif(1), rgb2gif(1), rle2gif(1), text2gif(1)

The GIFLIB distribution is Copyright (c) 1997 Eric S. Raymond

Gershon Elber

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>