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



**cough** $convert

imagemagick

$convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf

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On 18 January 2018 at 09:04, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected...
>
> A gracious response. However, my data were in the context of using a2ps
> to go from text to PS. Your "hefty PDFs" would be entirely correct if
> paps had been used for the conversion. The result is a 156551 sized file
> for me. gs2pdf comes up with a whopping 11540827 and takes 18 s to do so.

Heh. I've been called all sort of names, but gracious... :-)

> That was in 2015, Debian's paps does not relect the existence of a
> 7.0 version. I wonder why?

Yes, that might be the root of my dim memories.

Thanks for your thorough investigation

cheers
- -- tomás
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