dvilj [--Dnumber] [-ccopies] [-dmode] [-D] [-E] [-eoutputfile]
              [-ffrompage] [-g] [-hheaderfile] [-l] [-Mflag] [-mmag] [-ppages]
              [-q] [-r] [-ttopage] [-spagesize] [-v] [-Vmode] [-w] [-xxoff(mm)]

       dvilj and siblings convert TeX-output ".dvi" files into PCL (the
       Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language) commands suitable for
       printing on a HP LaserJet+, HP LaserJet IIP (using dvilj2p), HP
       LaserJet 4 (using dvilj4), and fully compatible printers.

       dvilj4 also provides support for the builtin Intellifont and TrueType
       fonts; TFM and VF files are provided in the distribution.  Virtual
       fonts are not supported directly by dvilj, so you must run dvicopy(1)
       first, or otherwise expand the virtual fonts

       All programs are generated from one source file dvi2xx.c. They are
       usually called via a shell script or as a line printer filter. One such
       script, dvihp(1), is included in the distribution. It provides command-
       line options similar to those of dvips(1).

           Debug according to the bits of number; see the kpathsea(3) manual
           for values. Also turns on general verbosity.

           Print each page number times (including original)

           stands for short edge binding. This option is only selectable in
           dvilj4 and dvilj2p.

           is for even pages, a trailing - suppresses printing of empty
           padding pages.

       -E  Switch printer into econo mode (dvilj4 only).

           Send output to outfile instead of the basename of dvi file extended
           with ".lj". If outfile is - (as in "-e-") the output is directed to
           standard output and can be directly piped into a spooler.

           Print pages with TeX page numbers greater than or equal to pagenum.

       -g  Go mode: do not reset printer at start of job.

           Copy headerfile to output before translation of the DVI file. Used

           Specify the magnification to use. The following are available:

             -m#usermag e.g., #900
             -m0 equivalent to -m#1000
             -mh equivalent to -m#1095
             -m1 equivalent to -m#1200
             -mq equivalent to -m#1250
             -m2 equivalent to -m#1440
             -m3 equivalent to -m#1728
             -m4 equivalent to -m#2074
             -m5 equivalent to -m#2488

           Print pagecount pages after the starting page.

       -q  Quiet operation: omit final statistics, etc.

       -r  Toggle page reversal.

           Specify the page size:

             -s1: Executive (7.25" x 10.5")
             -s2: Letter (8.5" x 11")
             -s3: Legal (8.5" x 14")
             -s6: Ledger (11" x 17")
             -s25: A5 paper (148mm x 210mm)
             -s26: A4 paper (210mm x 297mm)
             -s27: A3 (297mm x 420mm)
             -s45: JIS B5 paper (182mm x 257mm)
             -s46: JIS B4 paper (250mm x 354mm)
             -s71: Hagaki postcard (100mm x 148mm)
             -s72: Oufuku-Hagaki postcard (200mm x 148mm)
             -s80: Monarch Envelope (3 7/8" x 7 1/2")
             -s81: Commercial Envelope 10 (4 1/8" x 9 1/2")
             -s90: International DL (110mm x 220mm)
             -s91: International C5 (162mm x 229mm)
             -s100: International B5 (176mm x 250mm)

           These values are from the PCL 5 technical reference manual. If the
           -s commandline option is omitted, no clipping is performed at the
           bottom of the page. (But printing below the paper bottom should not
           disturb any correctly behaving PCL printer.) Please remember that
           the correct paper tray must be installed for selected paper size,
           so use this option only if you have full control over your print

           Print pages with TeX page numbers less than or equal to pagenum.

       -v  Verbose mode: list fonts used, etc.


           Global x-offset in dots on output page (overrides 1 inch/1 inch

           Global y-offset in dots on output page (overrides 1 inch/1 inch

       -z  Print a test page with the page counter at end of job.

       If no operands are specified a brief usage message is displayed.

           The DVI file name that shall be converted by dvilj. It must always
           be seekable.

           The output file name is constructed from filename. Either an
           extension ".dvi" is replaced by ".lj", or the extension ".lj" is

           If filename is -, the DVI file is read from standard input and the
           resulting PCL document is written to standard output. (Please
           remember that thhe DVI file must be seekable, even if it's stdin.)

       "\special" commands supported by dvilj have the generic syntax

         \special{key1=value key1="value with space"}
         \special{key3 = value key4 = 'note optional spaces around equal sign'}

       I.e., specials are a sequence of key/value pairs, separated by an equal
       sign. Spaces around the equal sign are ignored. The value is either a
       space separated word, or a quoted string. Both double and single quotes
       can be used, alternatively. There is no support for quoting quote
       characters in values; if you want both double and single quotes in one
       value, you're out of luck.

       The following key/value combinations are valid:

           Insert file at the current position. file is searched with
           kpathsea(3), see below.

           The file content must be valid for this printer, i.e., it should
           contain PCL escape sequences or HP-GL/2 commands. If the file is a
           graphics file, this typically means that the upper left corner of
           the graphics is placed at the current position.

           PCL absolute positioning escape sequences in file are rewritten to
           be relative positioning commands; the lowest appearing coordinate
           is used as reference.

           The accompanying key/value pairs are mandatory, they can be
           specified in an arbitrary order. Values x0, x1, y0, y1, and s are
           integers. (x0,y0) is the lower left corner, (x1,y1) the upper right
           corner of the image.

           Please note: The specific semantics of this special is not known.
           In particular, the rwi parameter is some scale factor; but even
           looking at the source code it is not quite clear what the special's
           author intended to implement here. In addition, it is unclear what
           dimensions are used to specify the corners, Postscript points or
           PCL dots.

           If you happen to know the psfile semantics, or if you spent the
           work analyzing them, please inform us at tex-k@tug.org, so that we
           can update this man page with the relevant information.

           where syntax is either "dvilj" or "ignore". This is a very crude
           way to tell the driver what to do with psfile specials.

           If the value is "ignore", all psfile specials that are processed
           afterwards are ignored, until the next dvilj-psfile-syntax special
           is processed.

           If the value is "dvilj", psfiles specials are processed as
           explained above, until the next dvilj-psfile-syntax special is

           An obvious, planned, extension is the value "dvips", but this has
           not been implemented yet.

           That special is not as simple as it sounds at first. Since its
           semantics is defined by processing order, it is only of use if it
           is placed on the same page as the psfile special. Having it once in
           a file (e.g., on the first page) does not help if you print just
           one page of the document -- dvilj does not do prescanning of first-
           page specials like some other drivers do. (Patches would be
           welcome, of course.)

       comment=arbitrary text
       comment arbitrary text
           This causes the rest of the special to be ignored; it may be used
           to add meta-information to a DVI file.

           With the first form, the comment may appear anywhere in the
           special.  When it appears first, the processing of this special is
           terminated and all other text behind is ignored.

           The second form is a speciality that has been introduced for
           compatibility with other drivers. If the first keyword of the
           special is comment and has no value, it is taken as a valid comment
           syntax, too; the rest of the special is ignored.


           x and y are the position of that point and have the form "?pt"
           where "?" is a floating point number. The positions are relative to
           the DVI page origin; i.e., coordinates increase moving right and
           down, the point of origin is (1in,1in) in the upper left corner,
           altered by options -x, -y, -X, and -Y, but not by \hoffset and

           x and y can be omitted, i.e., the values 3 or "4(,)" are valid.
           Then the current page position is used as position for point n.

           This undefines all points again.

           This sets the fill mode for the next fill special, the area will be
           filled with gray color. (grey is an alias for gray.) Any pattern
           specification is reset.

           gray_scale is the percentage of gray that shall be used here; with
           0 meaning white and 100 meaning black.

           Caveat: That special is actually a misnomer. PCL names these gray
           scales shading patterns and they are created by placing dots in the
           area. The gray scale selects how far spread the dots are. In the
           lower ranges, this doesn't look very gray on close sight, but more
           like a dotted background. Furthermore, the gray scales are not as
           fine-grained as the value range 0..100 might make you believe. In
           reality, there are only 8 different gray patterns available:

              1 -  2%
              3 - 10%
             11 - 20%
             21 - 35%
             36 - 55%
             56 - 80%
             81 - 99%

           One of these patterns is selected according to the gray_scale

           filled with a pattern. Any gray color specification is reset.

           pat is one of the following values:

             1  horizontal lines
             2  vertical lines
             3  diagonal lines, from lower left corner to upper right corner
             4  diagonal lines, from upper right corner to lower left corner
             5  crossed lines, vertically

           This is a legacy special, its use is depreciated. If the special is
           just one word that names an existing file, that file is verbatim
           included. Contrary to other file inclusion means, the file is not
           searched with kpathsea(3). You are not supposed to use this special
           and we won't fix any problems with it.

       It should be noted that the special parser does sometimes accept
       constructs that are not valid as in the documentation above. Then, the
       output is most often damaged in some way.

   Searching for Included Files
       Proper file include specials search the file with kpathsea(3). The
       search path is configured by variable "DVILJINPUTS" and, if the file is
       not found in that search path, by variable "TEXINPUTS".

       Search via "DVILJINPUTS" covers the use case that one has common site-
       wide graphics that shall be included in documents, e.g., scanned
       signatures. Search via "TEXINPUTS" covers the use case that one has
       graphics as part of ones current document.

       "dvilj" is used as the ".PROGRAM" name in texmf.cnf, for all driver
       variants, independent of the actual program name.

   Unknown Specials and "TEX_HUSH" configuration
       Kpathsea(3) has the concept of warning suppression with the
       configuration variable "TEX_HUSH", please refer to its Info node TeX
       support / Suppressing warnings. That variable holds a colon-separated
       identifiers that specifies the to-be-suppressed warnings.

       If "special" is among the listed values, dvilj does not output warnings
       any more about specials that it doesn't know about. But if there is a
       recognized special and if that special has an invalid parameter, then a
       warning is output nevertheless, independent of the content of

       If the printer has a duplex unit installed, duplex printing can be
       demanded with the -d option.

       Otherwise, the command line option -D causes the printer to print in
       doublepage mode, that is, roughly speaking, printing first the even
       following will happen after half of the pages is printed: LJ: the
       The printer continues when either the printed pages are fed into the
       placing first the printed pages into the paper tray).

       for even pages. A trailing "-" (as in -D-, -D1- or -D2-) supresses
       printing of empty pages which are generated for padding otherwise.

       Caveat on the doubleside-option: When it is used frequently or on very


       dvilj uses the same environment variables and algorithms for finding
       font files as TeX and its friends do. See the documentation for the
       kpathsea(3) library for details. (Repeating it here is too cumbersome.)

           If set, overrides all other font paths.

           If set, overrides mktexpk(1) as the name of the command to execute
           to create a PK file if one isn't found.

           May be set to indicate which sizes of fonts are available. It
           should consist of a list of numbers separated by colons. If the
           list begins with a colon, the system default sizes are used, as
           well. Sizes are expressed in dots per inch; decimals may be used
           for "pxl" files: for example, a 300 dots per inch file magnified by
           half a step comes out to 1643 dots per five inches, which should be
           encoded as 328.6.  dvilj tries the actual size of the font before
           trying any of the given sizes.

           Primary search path for include files.

           Secondary search path for include files.

           Colon separated list of identifiers that name situations where no
           warning shall be output. The following identifiers are used:

             checksum  suppress mismatched font checksum warnings
             readable  suppress warnings about unreadable files
             special   suppress warnings about unknown specials
             all       suppress all warning classes above
             none      suppress no warnings

           Trace kpathsea(3) lookups; set to -1 for complete tracing.

           On Windows, this may be the path to Ghostscript; there the default
           is gswin32c.exe.

       As of July 2007, PCL reference documentation is found at HP's Web site
       At the end of that page are links to reference manuals for PCL and PJL.

       In case that page is changed, here are the URLs of these documents.
       All have the form
       where "<ID>" is the following document ID:

           PCL 5 Technical Quick Reference Guide. This is the 1st thing to
           look up if you have questions about PCL escape sequences.

       13210 and 13211
           PCL 5 Technical Reference Manual (part I and II). This is the full-
           detailled explanation that you need to look up if you don't
           understand how the printer works. Part I is the actual manual, part
           II explains HP-GL/2 and has overall tips.

       13208 and 13207
           PJL Technical Reference Manual (and addendum)

           PCL 5 Color Manual. This explains color specials for the newer HP
           printers. (Not of much use today; for practical purposes we would
           need to add color specials to dvilj first.)

       13206 and 13209
           Comparison Guide (and addendum) that documents which PCL escape
           sequences are supported on which HP printers.

       dvi2xx by Gustaf Neumann, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien.

       dviljk fork by Karl Berry.

       Joachim Schrod <jschrod@acm.org> supplied security fixes and updated
       this man page.

       dvi2xx is public domain software. dviljk changes are covered by the GNU
       General Public License.

Version 2.6p5                     2012-03-12                          DVILJ(1)