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Bug#703508: marked as done (texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application )



Your message dated Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:52:41 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#703508: texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application
has caused the Debian Bug report #703508,
regarding texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application 
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Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.18-2.1
Severity: wishlist
Control: affects -1 a2ps
Control: affects -1 enscript

	Now that both GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript are no longer actively
	maintained, and have as of yet unresolved issues with their
	integration into the modern Debian GNU system (such as: proper
	UTF-8 and Fontconfig support), the ‘texttopdf’ filter (as
	provided by the cups-filters package) seems virtually the only
	sensible way to perform “plain text” to PDF conversion.

	Therefore, my suggestion would be to perform whatever minor
	modifications necessary to make ‘texttopdf’ also available as a
	stand-alone (as in: /usr/bin) program, and provide some
	documentation (such as a manual page.)  Currently, it's not very
	convenient to use; consider, e. g.:

$ LC_ALL=eo.UTF-8 dpkg --help \
      | CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf \
            "" "" "" 1 "page-left=40, page-right=40, cpi=11" \
      > help.pdf 

	I guess that both the GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript Debian packages
	could then eventually be retired.  (Thus finally resolving
	Debian Bug#180236, #229595, #498830, and probably a few more.)

	TIA.

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FSF associate member #7257

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On Sat 23 May 2015 at 20:08:29 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

> 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. :)

Closing. Reason as above.

Thank you for your report.
 
Regards,
 
Brian.

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