Re: [PLUG] gpg-key2ps (was Re: Participation information)

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Eric J. Roode wrote:

> Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> > Yours contains one line that seems odd:
> >
> > sub:u:1024:1:42C6FE860823462E:2004-11-20::::::s:
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't know enough postscript to know if it makes any
> > difference.  Try deleting just that one line and seeing if it makes a
> > difference.
> Well, I do know enough postscript. :-)  And I know enough shell
> scripting to determine that gpg-key2ps is rife with bugs. :-P
>
> It uses bash constructs, but the shebang line is #!/bin/sh -- change
> that to #!/bin/bash (that fixes a problem with "numlines").
>
> The grand sed line (the one with a whole mess of -e clauses) doesn't
> handle all possibilities of the gpg's --with-colons output (which the
> script uses and parses).  That's what's tripping up Art's key; he has a
> subkey that uses the RSA algorithm, and gpg-key2ps chokes on anything
> other than Elgamal.  It failed for my key, too, because mine displays
> trust information and "user attribute" info, neither of which is handled
> by gpg-key2ps.
>
> I hacked gpg-key2ps enough to print my own key... and found that the
> output is badly formatted (with overlapping text and crap).  I should
> probably rewrite it to work with any input.... probably will, at some 
> point.
>
> In the meantime, let me contribute this hacky little postscript program
> I wrote, to print out my own key information for keysignings.  It's not
> that good, and it's not that general, and you have to hand-edit it with
> a text editor, but it Works.  Use it as you will. :-)

Eric, thanks.  Not only worked well, but it is a nice useful format. One 
problem I had that I fixed with a kludge is that my list of emails were 
not separated by spaces.  I fixed it, inelegantly, by putting a space 
before all but my primary emails.

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