On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:39:22PM -0700, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: > can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted > to pdf? > what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with > boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italicize, > underline text, etc. > i have looked into enscript...but can't figure out how to make it do > what I want it to do(YET!!!!)... > the formatting has got to be done on the fly, from cron for instance and > I guess I could use standard > PCL or PS and write it myself, but am hoping that there's a simpler (and > less time consuming) way to do this... If you adopted formatting guidelines for the ascii text (for example, one blank line is a paragraph, two is a section, three is a chapter, text after an underscore is underlined, etc.) it wouldn't be too hard to write a script in Python or Perl to convert it to docbook; the docbook could then be converted to pdf using any of several tools; alternatively there is a Python library that can generate PDF files directly, so you could write a Python script to generate the PDF directly from the ascii text. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE
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