User`s guide

PShop User’s Guide - 9
Chapter 4: Using PShop
Overview
PShop supports various commands (i.e., PShop, vvlpr, print tools, lp, and lpr) for
using BSD style and System 5 style print systems.
Using any of these utilities users can submit of many types to be printed. Image
files, PostScript, and PDF files are automatically recognized and printed. The file
format support includes:
•TIFF
•Sun Raster
• EPSI
• PostScript Levels 1, 2 and 3
•JPEG
•GIF
• X11 Bitmap
•PNG
•XWD
•SGI RGB
•PDF
• ASCII text or any other format via a user-supplied filter
• A user-supplied “prefilter” may also be used
This chapter discusses printing with PShop via the standard UNIX systems’ lp
and lpr commands as well as PShop’s vvlpr command.