Readme for ps2pegg-0.10
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	ps2pegg V0.10 - Linux support for Casio label printers.

	Copyright (c) 2004 Alex Perry, <alex@pamurray.com>


        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
        (at your option) any later version.

	You may use this program for whatever you want as long the above written
	text remains.

	Please support Pegg by testing it and reporting bugs. !


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The ps2pegg.awk script converts a plain PBM input bitmap into the
binary format that's expected by the PEGG program. The input bitmap can
be too big, since whitespace is cropped on all four sides of the image.

If that AWK converter is combined with the netpbm and ghostscript packages
it is possible to generate postscript print jobs to make labels out of every application.
The bash script shows how to convert a simple text string into
postscript (as an example) and then generates a label with the text.
With small changes, this can easily be added to an LPR configuration.


