On 7/9/25 11:00, Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > I often create a pdf of sdiff output using a command like this: > > sdiff -w100 old new | enscript -o sdiff.pdf > > This works okay, but the resulting pdf is not searchable. Can someone > suggest an alternative that will properly scale the wide output (-w100) > to a letter size pdf, yet retain the ability to search for text strings? > Hello Galen,
If you have a CUPS installed, you can print text file to pdf. This pdf will be text searchable. At least using okular pdf reader. https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html You can apply paper size etc to the CLI lp/lpr. I just tested the GUI print version Xfce mousepad. This converts a text to pdf that okular can search: enscript --output=- bond_movies.txt | ps2pdf - bond_movies.pdf More ideas here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/convert-text-to-pdf As always, YMMV. -Ed
