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

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

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 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)?
> >
> > Why do you want to"print" if you can convert to pdf using the command line?
> > Based on the original file extension you simply search for a utility that
> > will convert your original file to pdf.
>
> How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line?

Using enscript and ps2pdf (goastscript) for example.

https://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm
https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17406/how-to-convert-txt-to-pdf

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John Doe