On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 17:17:23 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > 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.
The requested functionality appears to be already provided by CUPS. From cupsfilter(8): cupsfilter is a front-end to the CUPS filter subsystem which allows you to convert a file to a specific format, just as if you had printed the file through CUPS. By default, cupsfilter generates a PDF file. So, at its most basic: /usr/sbin/cupsfilter input.txt > output.pdf Being in /usr/sbin the program's existance is not immediately obvious to a user. I have never understood why it has to live there. Is there a good reason? Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409181310.GA11437@desktop
