Hi, John D. Verne wrote on Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:33:25AM -0400: > Somebody wrote:
>> I sometimes have to deal with PDF files (ugh) and all >> I need is the ability to view and print them, nothing >> fancy. With security in mind I would like to get opinions >> on the best one to use. > There are PDF-to-mandoc converters out there. What?! Where, can you provide hyperlinks? A quick web search didn't turn up anything obvious for me. (I'm the mandoc(1) mantainer and would like to know if such a thing existed.) > Assuming the conversion tool is sound, That is unlikely. I wouldn't know how to write a PDF to mandoc converter short of losing almost all of the formatting and heuristically creating markup in doclifter(1)/pod2mdoc(1) style from scratch. Are you maybe confusing PDF-to-mandoc and mdoc/man-to-PDF converters? The latter are indeed readily available, including mandoc(1). > I imagine OBSD mandoc is pretty secure. Not perfect, but certainly better than typical PDF viewers. However, the OP asked for ways to *print* PDF files. Even for printing mdoc(7) or man(7) files, i would recommend converting them to PostScript or PDF with mandoc(1) and then printing that. So i don't understand how even a good PDF-to-mandoc converter (whatever that would do in detail) might help the OP at all... Yours, Ingo
