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Hi Ivan, and thanks for your bugreport,

Le mercredi, 20 mars 2013 13.34:09, Ivan Shmakov a écrit :
>       Now that both GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript are no longer actively
>       maintained, and have as of yet unresolved issues with their
>       integration into the modern Debian GNU system (such as: proper
>       UTF-8 and Fontconfig support), the ‘texttopdf’ filter (as
>       provided by the cups-filters package) seems virtually the only
>       sensible way to perform “plain text” to PDF conversion.
> 
>       Therefore, my suggestion would be to perform whatever minor
>       modifications necessary to make ‘texttopdf’ also available as a
>       stand-alone (as in: /usr/bin) program, and provide some
>       documentation (such as a manual page.)

This looks like a worthwhile suggestion, but is more of upstream realm.

Till: what do you think ? Would it be possible to have a separate texttopdf 
binary and have cups-filters have only a symlink / wrapper around it as 
filter?

Cheers, OdyX
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OdyX


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