Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:31:14 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 09:02:08 +0000, Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2018-01-09, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > And that's without discussing whether having to install a TeX system
> > > is any better than installing LibreOffice.
> >
> > Yes, I know, you're all flying to the moon in 1969 and must fit
> > everything into a kilobyte or two.
> >
> > But I did foresee this objection with my Gorilla-microbe metaphor,
> > although I needn't have done so as I was not the one to make the original
> > suggestion of latex for the production of pdfs in the first place.
>
> Given a willingness to devote the necessary resources to the task, a
> decent case can be made for using unoconv to convert text (and other
> document types) to PDF. The method relies on starting unoconv as a
> listener in the background (unconv -l &). X is not required.
>
> Quite a sophistcated conversion engine can be constructed; text, MS
> Word, ODT. RTF etc to PDF. Printing to a real printer or to file can
> also be built into the system. I sometimes wonder whether this is
> used as the basis for some of the online conversion services.
>
> Simplicity, txt2pdf et al, can be an advantage but having multiple
> methods at hand cannot be bad.
Another plus for unoconv is that it will process a text file to produce
a PDF/A compliant file. If Latex was not completely out of the running,
it is now. (Whether or not it is regarded, irrelevantly, as text).
--
Brian.
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