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Re: PDF on debian



On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 17:35:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use
> > > > 
> > > >   :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf'
> > > > 
> > > > cups-filters needs to be on the system.
> > > 
> > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize.
> > 
> > Pipe through
> > 
> >   pdftocairo -pdf -paper A4 - a4.pdf
> 
> This introduces additional margins at the top and at the bottom.

 PPD=envy.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 UTF-8-demo.txt >out.pdf
 
> Anyway, Unicode is not supported.

That would be a big drawback for a printing filter.

 CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 UTF-8-demo.txt >out.pdf

-- 
Brian.


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