Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 09:55:28 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 12:40:10 (+), Brian wrote: > > On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 09:44:51 +, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2018-01-17, Chris Ramsden wrote: > > > > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > >> On 18/01/18 10:37, Jo

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 12:40:10 (+), Brian wrote: > On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 09:44:51 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-17, Chris Ramsden wrote: > > > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > >> On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > >>> Works fine for txt, although as it ras

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 09:44:51 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-17, Chris Ramsden wrote: > > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >> On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >>> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be > >>> optimized for size. > >

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-17, Chris Ramsden wrote: > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: >>> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be >>> optimized for size. >> >> Yes, typically, but for large fonts and low resolution out

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 17:06:26 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:47:01PM +, Chris Ramsden wrote: > > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > >> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going t

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 10:15:45 +1300, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > **cough** $convert > > imagemagick > > $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf **splutter, splutter**. convert(1) convert - convert between image formats Plain text is an image format? One lives and learns. -- Brian.

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 21:04:03 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected... > > > > A gracious response. However, m

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:47:01PM +, Chris Ramsden wrote: > On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be > >> optimized for size. > > > > Yes, typically, but for lar

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: >> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be >> optimized for size. > > Yes, typically, but for large fonts and low resolution outputs with few > pages, rasterised pages may

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be optimized for size. Yes, typically, but for large fonts and low resolution outputs with few pages, rasterised pages may be smaller. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Di

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be optimized for size. On 18 January 2018 at 10:33, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 18/01/18 10:15, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >> **cough** $convert >> imagemagick >> $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf >> > > +1 for Ima

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/01/18 10:15, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: **cough** $convert imagemagick $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf +1 for ImageMagick convert to generate PDFs from scanned pages (images). I found that this works best with -page and -density specified. However, I have not tried using it for

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
**cough** $convert imagemagick $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf --- On 18 January 2018 at 09:04, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [..

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected... > > A gracious response. However, my data were in the context of us

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:10:03PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 17:13:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Downside is that it does the panoramic tour via PS and thus generates > > > fairly hefty PDFs

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:10:03PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 17:13:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Downside is that it does the panoramic tour via PS and thus generates > > fairly hefty PDFs. > > With plain text files a

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:31:14 +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 09:02:08 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > > And that's without discussing whether having to install a TeX system > > > is any better than installing LibreOffice. > > > > Yes,

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 17:13:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:38:47AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > And to be fair, results can be pretty exciting, depending on the > actual file content... > > I would go with a2ps, too, btw. > > Downside is that it does the panora

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:38:47AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:46:43 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [text, yeah!] > > But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-) > > Yes, you can put me in the text camp, and a little further over

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:46:43 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:02:08AM +, Curt wrote: > > [...] > > > You (a thirty-year veteran latex user we learn elsewhere): Please explain > > the > > first step (which is how to create a latex file). > > > > > than TeX/La

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 10-01-2018, at 10h 46'43", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-) > +1 Ionel

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 09:02:08 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: [...] > > And that's without discussing whether having to install a TeX system > > is any better than installing LibreOffice. > > Yes, I know, you're all flying to the moon in 1969 and must fit > everything

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:02:08AM +, Curt wrote: [...] > You (a thirty-year veteran latex user we learn elsewhere): Please explain the > first step (which is how to create a latex file). > > > than TeX/LaTeX is a useless way to turn a *text*

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > > Perhaps before this protracted, tangential and niggling subthread > becomes acrimonious or invidious, it might be easier to just state Well, it did, through no fault of mine own, I must say, turn both acrimonious and invidious. I have been neither (up till n

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 19:21:39 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 18:18:33 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > Unlike David Wright, I've not noticed the font quality to be poor when > > the magnification ability (left click with the mouse) of gv is used to > > examine characters in the

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:01:50PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 23:20:55 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Modern (La)TeX implementations should be able to cope with UTF-8 [...] > Thanks. I feel ashamed that I'm wasti

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 23:20:55 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:09:22PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > For me, this is a new take on document conversion methods. > > > > FWIW my test file produced 30819 "Missing character" errors which > > is hardly surpr

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 20:47:44 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > > > Oh. pdftex is now being fed a latex file, not a plain text file. > > Previously: > > > > > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a *text file* > > That's right. No contradiction. I just added a data p

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:09:22PM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > For me, this is a new take on document conversion methods. > > FWIW my test file produced 30819 "Missing character" errors which > is hardly surprising as TeX was released 40 year

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > Oh. pdftex is now being fed a latex file, not a plain text file. > Previously: > > > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a *text file* That's right. No contradiction. I just added a data point. -- "Ruling a large nation is like cooking a small fish" - L

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 20:36:23 +, Brian wrote: > I am not playing your games. Exotica is outside my field of interest. ^ ^are Just in case there is a nitpick. -- Brian.

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 19:41:35 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > > > There are quite a few in this thread. Clue us in? > > The person who responded directly to David's question quoted above, > whose name, exotic in the regions from which I hail, escapes my > remembrance. I am

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 19:41:35 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > >> >> > >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > >> >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > >> >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. >

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: >> >> >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to >> >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf >> >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. >> > >> > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 15:29:08 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. > > > >

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. > > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step" process?

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 07h 35'28", David Wright wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > &g

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 13h 06'44", Curt wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "R

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > >> PDF-Printer from the command line"

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a >> PDF-Printer from the command line" >>> > >>> >How does one convert a text file to a

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > PDF-Printer from the command line" >> > >> >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? >> >>

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:52:08AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > PDF-Printer from the command line" > > > > > >How doe

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > > >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > > Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document. > Step 2. Use

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread davidson
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program system-config-printer but I don't wan

[SOLVED]Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Jason
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 10:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 20:45:01 -0600, Jason wrote: > > > > lpadmin. The wiki should help. > > > > I had looked into lpadmin and thought that might be what I need but > > couldn't find in the man page how to add a printer. I don't have web >

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 18:18:33 (+), Brian wrote: … and the attachments! Cheers, David.

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 18:18:33 (+), Brian wrote: > On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 09:35:36 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-08, David Wright wrote: > > >> > > >> Which txt2pdf? I tried the DFSG free one at > > >> > > >> https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf > > >> > > >> Not in Debian, AFAICT, but

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 21:18:09 -0600, David Wright wrote: > BTW a2ps, suggested earlier, is another that failed to move to Unicode > AIUI. A shame as it had lots of useful column/custom heading stuff. a2ps. enscript and (possibly) paps date from the era (not so long ago) when PostScript was COW (

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread rhkramer
Thanks! On Monday, January 08, 2018 01:55:50 PM Brian wrote: > The ones with "2" are from the ghostscript package. "to" is either from > poppler or cups or cups-filters.

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 07:21:46 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, January 07, 2018 03:28:25 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > But my statement about variety of programs was more intended to say that > > there are programs like txt2pdf, pdf2txt, html2txt (iirce)--in other > > words, such

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 09:35:36 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-08, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> Which txt2pdf? I tried the DFSG free one at > >> > >> https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf > >> > >> Not in Debian, AFAICT, but download, put in /usr/local/bin and install > >> python-reportlab. Giv

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, January 07, 2018 03:28:25 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > But my statement about variety of programs was more intended to say that > there are programs like txt2pdf, pdf2txt, html2txt (iirce)--in other > words, such programs to convert between a variety of formats. For the sake of (an at

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 11:45:40 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/7/2018 9:49 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 21:41:16 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Bri

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread john doe
On 1/7/2018 9:49 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 21:41:16 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jaso

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-08 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-08, David Wright wrote: >> >> Which txt2pdf? I tried the DFSG free one at >> >> https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf >> >> Not in Debian, AFAICT, but download, put in /usr/local/bin and install >> python-reportlab. Gives searchable PDFs, fonts can be selected more >> easily than with

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 18:15:06 (+), Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently > > But it does treat conversion of files to PDFs, so you are not way off > base. Look at the var

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 21:41:16 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jas

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread john doe
On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print file

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, January 07, 2018 01:15:06 PM Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > clarified, but I would point out that a variety of programs like txt2pdf > > exist (and work)--I assume, but don't know that they are available in > > the various Debian distr

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > > > > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > > > > print files to. I

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently But it does treat conversion of files to PDFs, so you are not way off base. Look at the variety of techniques people use: paps, a2ps, enscript, cupsfilter,

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:06:01 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: > >> > > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > >> > > >> > >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > > do it. A sl

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread rhkramer
I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently clarified, but I would point out that a variety of programs like txt2pdf exist (and work)--I assume, but don't know that they are available in the various Debian distros. On Sunday, January 07, 2018 05:10:50 AM Brian wrot

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:06:01 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: > >> > > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > >> > > >> > >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > > do it. A sle

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: >> > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? >> > >> >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut. Depends on the nut, doesn't it? Anyhoo, I

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 20:45:01 -0600, Jason wrote: > > lpadmin. The wiki should help. > > I had looked into lpadmin and thought that might be what I need but > couldn't find in the man page how to add a printer. I don't have web > access so am asking here rather than looking on the wiki. For a P

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.01.18 13:26, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > This may be more delicate?: https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/ Hmmm ... and if ps2pdf isn't yet installed at your end, then an apt-get fixes that. It produces sterling pdf from ps for me - big prints come out perfectly at the local printer. Erik

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Jason
I am grateful for all the suggestions. The reason I would like to setup a PDF printer is so that I can use the lp command to print most of the common file formats that might come as email attachments to the PDF printer to have them all end up in the ~/PDF folder. For example: lp -d PDF-Printer ima

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.01.18 00:19, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > > unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut. This may be more delicate?: https:/

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > >> On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > >> > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > >> > print files to. I only know how

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > >> On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: >> > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to >> > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program >> > system-config-printer but

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program system-config-printer but I don't wan

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program > > system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on thi

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jan 2018 at 21:06:22 -0600, Jason wrote: > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program > system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on this > Pi. What shell command do I need to creat

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-05 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on this Pi. What shell command do I need to create a PDF printer on the P

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 January 2018 22:06:22 Jason wrote: > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program > system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on this > Pi. What shell command do I need to create a

How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-05 Thread Jason
On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on this Pi. What shell command do I need to create a PDF printer on the Pi (or on any Debian, for that matter