a2ps converts ASCII text into PostScript. This feature is used by
apsfilter, for example, to pretty-print ASCII text.
Warning: a2ps is not able to convert complex Unicode (UTF-8) text to
PostScript. Only language text which can be converted from UTF-8 to
Latin encodings are supported.
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Requires
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
Changelog
* Sun Sep 13 2026 Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
- Update to 4.15.8:
* Noteworthy changes in release 4.15.8 (2025-12-04):
- Fix a buffer overflow on a long value supplied to -E.
- Include some header files with system paths, not user
paths.
- Fix building on systems that need gnulib's malloc
wrapper.
* Noteworthy changes in release 4.15.7 (2025-07-11):
- Remove unused non-C23-compliant debug code.
- Drop a2ps-4.14-linker.patch: bundled ltmain.sh was
re-imported from a newer libtool so the hunk no longer
applies; the touched branch is dead code on Linux and the
file is regenerated by autoreconf in %build anyway.
- Rebase a2ps-gcc15.patch: upstream removed the yyprint
debug code in 4.15.7, keep only the missing-in