Your message dated Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:52:41 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#703508: texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application has caused the Debian Bug report #703508, regarding texttopdf should be also available as a standalone application to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cups-filters Version: 1.0.18-2.1 Severity: wishlist Control: affects -1 a2ps Control: affects -1 enscript Now that both GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript are no longer actively maintained, and have as of yet unresolved issues with their integration into the modern Debian GNU system (such as: proper UTF-8 and Fontconfig support), the ‘texttopdf’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.) Currently, it's not very convenient to use; consider, e. g.: $ LC_ALL=eo.UTF-8 dpkg --help \ | CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf \ "" "" "" 1 "page-left=40, page-right=40, cpi=11" \ > help.pdf I guess that both the GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript Debian packages could then eventually be retired. (Thus finally resolving Debian Bug#180236, #229595, #498830, and probably a few more.) TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat 23 May 2015 at 20:08:29 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Tue 09 Apr 2013 at 20:16:43 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > >>>>> Brian Potkin <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > So, at its most basic: > > > > > /usr/sbin/cupsfilter input.txt > output.pdf > > > > > Being in /usr/sbin the program's existence is not immediately obvious > > > to a user. > > > > What's worse, it currently belongs to the ‘cups’ package (and > > not, say, ‘cups-filters’), thus bringing all the dependencies of > > CUPS for the simple task in question. > > > > Yet another issue is the documentation. An example (like the > > one above) would certainly be apt for cupsfilter(8), and the > > list of ‘texttopdf’ options (and likewise for the other useful > > filters), either in the manual page, or in another one > > referenced from there, would be handy. > > textopdf is now available without installing CUPS: > > apt-get install cups-filters-core-drivers > > So (as the subject heading requests) texttopdf is available as a > standalone application. > > Looks like bug-closing time. :) Closing. Reason as above. Thank you for your report. Regards, Brian.
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