Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My one feature request for Shuck, which is very much wishlist priority,
>would be printing. I find the styled text looks very nice if I copy it
>into ClarisWorks and print it, but this is an annoying extra step.
Alan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a script which can make PDFs from
PODs - this was in response to the need for a printed version of the pods,
you might like to check it out
but quoting from his posting:
>I have put a small (15K) 'pod2pdf' translator up at:
>
> http://www.afco.demon.co.uk/code/pod2pdf.tar.gz
>
>which I hope might prove a useful adjunct to 'Shuck'.
>
>It is designed as a simple 'drag and drop' application which produces
>PDF files which can be (of course) be viewed on screen but more
>importantly can be printed out on most printers including cheap
>non-PostScript ink-jets.
>
>Its predecessor, pod2ps, produces a PostScript file, but not everybody has
>access to a
>PostScript printer (or RIP)........
>How does it work? Well, the script reads the POD text and parses
>that, formatting the output text according to the rules set out in
>'perlpod.pod'. Then 'pod2pdf' prints out the formatted text according
>to the rules of the PDF language, as set out in the 'PDF Reference
>Manual'.
