NAME

       Passepartout - an XML-based desktop publishing application

SYNOPSIS

       passepartout [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       Passepartout is an open source desktop publishing application.  The goal is to provide a simple and user-
       friendly,  yet powerful tool for creating printed material. Passepartout combines a WYSIWYG layout editor
       with a high-quality typesetting engine.

       You do not use Passepartout for writing text, because it is only a  layout  editor.  Basically  speaking,
       Passepartout  is in the business of taking the different parts that make up a page, such as text, photos,
       graphics, and "gluing" them on piece of paper. Passepartout can import from several  different  bitmapped
       image  formats  as well as EPS files.  you write the text in your favorite text editor (e.g. Emacs or VI)
       in an XML-based format.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
              Show version number.

       -V     Be verbose.

       -d     Show debugging messages.

SEE ALSO

       xml2ps(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally written by  Gaudenz  Steinlin  <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>,  for  the  Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

                                                January 12, 2004                                PASSEPARTOUT(1x)