Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line
On 2018-01-08, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Which txt2pdf? I tried the DFSG free one at
>>
>> https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf
>>
>> Not in Debian, AFAICT, but download, put in /usr/local/bin and install
>> python-reportlab. Gives searchable PDFs, fonts can be selected more
>> easily than with cupsfilter or cups-pdf and it has UTF-8 support. Looks
>> useful.
>
> Indeed. It seems a lot faster than paps+ps2pdf too. I can see myself
> using this, though I'll keep my paps function as well, as it appears
> to be able to make substitutions for missing glyphs. It's handy to
> have a function that prints *something* at every position (except
> the strip at 0x80), with those little blobs containing 4 hex chars
> where there's no glyph. paps also does columns.
>
> The default fault in txt2pdf is Courier→Nimbus Mono AFAICT, which is
> very limited. The unifont TTF font has far more characters, but
> the quality is very poor (deliberately, but looks like a bitmapped font).
> I also haven't figured out line-numbering: I'll have to study the script.
> Searchability is a useful extra (I'm used to just searching the original
> text source file).
It seems very swift. I tried line-numbering with the '--line-numbers'
argument, but got no line numbers (which is not what I was expecting).
Then I tried the '--page-numbers' argument, expecting to see page
numbers (and I did, centered at the bottom).
You can change the default font ('--font' or '-f' <full-path-to-ttf>,
but I'm sure you know that already).
> BTW a2ps, suggested earlier, is another that failed to move to Unicode
> AIUI. A shame as it had lots of useful column/custom heading stuff.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
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