Re: PDF on debian

[Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de>]

Corey Hickman writes:

> Hello,
>
> What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)?
> And is there a VIM plugin for that?

For cases where I care little about font or formatting, I use VIM's  
integrated hardcopy:

	:ha > /tmp/print.ps
	:!ps2pdf /tmp/print.ps /tmp/print.pdf

Find the printable PDF in /tmp/print.pdf afterwards.

When I want to use a custom font and zoom settings, I follow a  
transformation of Text -> HTML -> wkhtmltopdf using a script (attached as  
`ascii2pdf.sh`). Requires `wkhtmltopdf` and `texlive-fonts-extra` (you can  
avoid that by changing the font file in the script).

To test it, you can run it on itself to produce a file `print.pdf`

	./ascii2pdf.sh ascii2pdf.sh print.pdf

It even supports colors but the syntax is weird enough such that it is not  
useful without additional documentation (I did not document it yet...).

HTH
Linux-Fan

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