Software Map

PostScript::MailLabels builds printer calibration pages, and will generate PostScript code for putting addresses on mailing label stock.

ttf2pt1 is a converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).

catdvi translates a TeX Device Independent (DVI) file into readable plain text as well as possible given the limitations of the target format.

PoDoFoBrowser is a Qt application for browsing the
objects in a PDF file and modifying their keys. It
is very useful if you want to look at the internal
structure of PDF files.

The X Printing Panel (XPP) is a tool for choosing the desired printer out of a list of all printers available under CUPS and for setting printer options by an easy-to-use GUI. One simply calls the program instead of the usual utilities (lpr or lp) at the command line or out of applications.

GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector
output for any OpenGL application. It uses sorting
algorithms capable of handling intersecting and
stretched polygons, as well as non manifold
objects. It provides advanced smooth shading and
text rendering, culling of invisible primitives,
mixed vector/bitmap output, and much more. It can
currently create PostScript (PS), Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS), Portable Document Format
(PDF), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files, as well as LaTeX files for the text fragments.

system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It
uses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) to
do this. The communication with the server is
performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally
able to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one.

rst2pdf is a tool to convert Restructured Text to
PDF without using any intermediate formats.

Barcode4J is a barcode generation package. The
following symbologies are currently implemented:
Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Codabar, Code 128,
UPC-A and UPC-E (with supplementals), EAN-13 and
EAN-8 (with supplementals), EAN-128, POSTNET,
Royal Mail Customer Barcode, PDF417, and
DataMatrix. Supported output formats are SVG, EPS
(Encapsulated PostScript), Bitmap images (such as
PNG or JPEG), and Java2D (AWT). Additional
features include two APIs (XML-oriented and
Bean-style), a Servlet with support for SVG, EPS,
and bitmap output, a command-line interface, a
demonstration applet, and extensions for Apache
Xalan-J, SAXON, and Apache FOP.

PDFdirectory is a PHP/MySQL creation of a
printable directory in PDF format. Uses could be
for church groups, sports teams, etc. Selected
members of the organization can directly enter
information on members, teams, clubs, etc. Custom
pages can be created offline, exported to PDF, and
uploaded to be included in the document. These
pages will be combined with the auto-generated
output from the database to create the final document.

magicfilter is an extensible and customizable
automatic printer filter. It selects an
appropriate conversion technique for the input
data by seeking for magic numbers, and then
utilizing the appropriate conversion utility. It
is primarily intended for use as the "input
filter" by the lpd print spooler. The options
accepted by magicfilter are exactly the ones
passed to the input filter by lpd.

Foomatic is the printer/driver database of Linuxprinting.org. The XML-based system integrates free software printer drivers with all common spoolers (CUPS, LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PPR, PDQ, CPS, etc.) in UNIX. It generates Adobe-compliant PPD files which, together with the foomatic-rip filter script, allow easy setup of print queues with access to all driver options. Foomatic ships with every major Linux distro and its Web site is used as a reference by vendors. It is an up-to-date and distribution-independent repository of printer and driver data, scripts, and utilities, accompanied by the wealth of knowledge, tips and tricks, solutions, and enlightenment provided by its newsgroups.