The Fprint metafile translation script

     This is a script to translate metafiles generated by
FERRET.  It uses the command `gksm2ps' and is intended to
simplify sending plots to printers, to an output file only, or to a
workstation screen.

     The script translates to PostScript or X Window output. 
Your system manager should customize the script at your site
to permit your specification of the actual printers you have.  In
the examples below `bw_ps' is the name of a monochrome
PostScript printer and `color_ps' the name of a color PS printer. 
"Fprint", "Fprint -h", or "Fprint -help" gives the following usage
information:

Script to translate Ferret's graphics metafile(s) to PS
usage: Fprint [-P printer || -o file_name || -X]
              [-p landscape || portrait] [-# <number of copies>]
              [-l ps || cps] [-R] metafile(s)

   -P:     send PostScript output to the named printer
   -o:     send PostScript output to a file; don't print plots
   -X:     send the plots to your X Window for preview
   -p:     page orientation, landscape or portrait
   -#:     print more than one copy of the plots
   -l:     line styles, ps == monochrome, cps == color
   -R:     do not rename files with a date stamp appended 

Examples:
    Fprint metafile.plt*
    Fprint -P color_ps -l cps -# 10 metafile.plt*
    Fprint -p portrait -R metafile.plt.~2~

"Fprint metafile.plt" translates and prints `metafile.plt' on the
printer identified by the environment variable PRINTER.

"Fprint -P bw_ps metafile.plt" sends the plot to printer bw_ps.

"Fprint -P color_ps metafile.plt*" sends all plots beginning with
the name `metafile.plt' to printer color_ps.

"Fprint -o my_plot.ps metafile.plt" writes to a PS file named
`my_plot.ps'.

"Fprint -X metafile.plt metafile.plt.~1~" renders `metafile.plt'
and `metafile.plt.~1~' on the workstation screen. 

     When you send output to a printer or a disk file, the "-
p" option will orient the plot as either landscape (with the long
side of the page horizontal) or portrait (the short side
horizontal).  To make multiple copies when printing: use "-# 3",
for example, to make 3 copies of the plots
 
     The "-l" option lets you override the default use of dot-
dashed line types for monochrome printers and colored lines for
colored printers.  For example, "Fprint -l ps -P color_ps
metafile.plt" will use different line types rather than different
colors to distinguish between the lines on a line plot sent to a
color printer.

     The "-R" option turns off the default behavior of the
metafile translator to append a date stamp to metafile names
when they are sent to a printer or a disk file.  The default
action is intended to distinguish metafiles that have been
printed out; this option keeps the metafile names unmodified.
