Bug#703508: texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 09 Apr 2013 at 20:16:43 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> >>>>> Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  > So, at its most basic:
> 
>  >    /usr/sbin/cupsfilter input.txt > output.pdf
> 
>  > Being in /usr/sbin the program's existence is not immediately obvious
>  > to a user.
> 
> 	What's worse, it currently belongs to the ‘cups’ package (and
> 	not, say, ‘cups-filters’), thus bringing all the dependencies of
> 	CUPS for the simple task in question.
> 
> 	Yet another issue is the documentation.  An example (like the
> 	one above) would certainly be apt for cupsfilter(8), and the
> 	list of ‘texttopdf’ options (and likewise for the other useful
> 	filters), either in the manual page, or in another one
> 	referenced from there, would be handy.

textopdf is now available without installing CUPS:

  apt-get install cups-filters-core-drivers

So (as the subject heading requests) texttopdf is available as a
standalone application.

Looks like bug-closing time. :)

Regards,

Brian.