c2ps - C/C++ to Postscript Converter

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c2ps 4.0

partial code preprocessing
densified function index

non-latin font support
fresh bugs

1-up, 2-up or 4-up
paper supported
A4, Letter
different fonts for C/C++ constructs
default, comments, keywords, line numbers,
preprocessor directives, strings,
types, function id's
changeable font size
spacing between lines
comment dimming (from black to white)
function id highlighting
underline, box, none
adjusted multiple line comment printing

multiple file printing
highlighting according to file extension
ISO 8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) support
extended set of keywords (refer to ISO/ANSI C++ Draft)
index of locally defined functions
function on entering and leaving a column
tab -> spaces convertion
wrapped/cut long lines
max number of lines per page
header with file's last modification (printing) date
line and page numbers
output file specification

c2ps-4.0

c2ps-4.0.tar.gz (48K) - source distribution
c2ps-4.0.tar.Z (73K)
c2ps-40.zip (53K)
c2ps-40w.zip (108K) - source & Win95/NT 32-bit binary
c2ps-40o.zip (106K) - source & OS/2 binary
c2ps16.zip (56K) - DOS/Win3.x binary (courtesy of Rhys Gibson)

Miscellany

c2ps-3.0.tar.gz - previous release
c2ps-3.0.tar.Z
xc2ps.el - c2ps menu in XEmacs (for ver2.8, to be updated for 4.0)
c2ps_man.ps - c2ps-4.0 manual page in postscript
showfonts.ps - send it to your printer
Names of built-in fonts that your Postscript printer may have (comp.fonts FAQ)
A nice collection of public domain Postscript fonts
To get c2ps with Chinese (Hanja) and Korean (Hangul) support contact Ahn, Hyun-Soon

Usage

    Usage: c2ps  [ -?h124abceikmnruvwx ] [ -F default_font   ] [ -C comment_font  ]
                 [ -K keyword_font     ] [ -N lnumber_font   ] [ -P preproc_font  ]
                 [ -S string_font      ] [ -T type_font      ] [ -U function_font ]
                 [ -X nonlatin_font    ] [ -d dim_comments   ] [ -f fontsize      ]
                 [ -l lines            ] [ -o output_file    ] [ -p paper         ]
                 [ -s space            ] [ -t tabsize        ] [ -_ fun_highlight ]
                 [ -DPREPROC_VAR ...   ] [ -UPREPROC_VAR ... ] [ file ... ]

Examples

Fully featured
c2ps sample.c > sample2.ps
Plain ASCII
c2ps sample.c -c -n -u > sample1.ps
A different look
c2ps -F Times-Roman -C Palatino-BoldItalic -K Times-Bold -N Helvetica -P Helvetica-Bold -S Times-Italic -T Times-BoldItalic -_ box -w sample.c > sample3.ps
For printers with low resolution this option set may look better:
c2ps -d 0 -C Palatino-Italic sample.c > sample4.ps
c2ps all files with extensions: .c .h .cc .hh .cpp .hpp,
print the rest of files as ASCII
c2ps -x src/* skel/* | lpr
Preprocessing
c2ps -DYY_USE_PROTOS sample.c > sample5.ps
c2ps -UYY_USE_PROTOS sample.c > sample6.ps
c2ps -DDEBUG -DSUN_SPECIFIC -UPRINT *.cc | lpr
Excerpt from a file with a large number of defined functions
c2ps -f 9 gcc-2.7.2/emit-rtl.c > emit-rtl.ps
Printing temporarily commented out/soon to be inserted code
c2ps -C Courier -f 9 -a temp.c > temp1.ps
c2ps -C Courier-Bold -f 9 -a -d 0.6 temp.c > temp2.ps
Non-latin font support. For instance, cyrrilic text with koi-8 encoding
Font with only upper half of code table symbols implemented (or all)
c2ps -X Cyrillic-Italic-koi8 koi8.cc > koi8x.ps; cat Cyrillic-Italic-koi8.ps koi8x.ps > koi8xx.ps
Font with all symbols implemented
c2ps -i -C Antiqua -S Antiqua koi8.cc > koi8y.ps; cat Antiqua.pfa koi8y.ps > koi8yy.ps
Here is a collection of koi-8 cyrillic postscript fonts.

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