Linux and several other flavors have:
Consider using a2ps, and ps2pdf. Convert text to ps first with a2ps, then convert the output of that to pdf with ps2pdf.
Note: you may have ps2pdf13 or something like that. The "13" part refers to the version of pdf, in this example version 1.3. You want the latest version, maybe 13 or 14.
I am not quite sure how to properly run the commands. I am just trying to take the article.txt which is a publication downloaded in text format and make it a pdf.
It sounds like
Code:
a2ps
followed by
Code:
ps2pdf
will do but I am not sure of the correct syntax. Thank you .
Actually, I think your main problem is that the original file is UCS2-LE. And you may need plain ascii to use most tools, but you could convert to UTF-8 and then load and print to pdf using a browser (just an example). Shoot... you could actually do that using the UCS original file.
Anyway, to convert (for example) from UCS2-LE to UTF-8 you could do:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me the best text to pdf converter? I need to convert several text files to pdf. :)I'm looking to evaluate any products before I purchase.
thanks,
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Is there a way using the pdf to text utility to convert all the pdf in a given directory?
So instead of one at a time:
pdftotext pdftotext hp-manual.pdf hp-manual.txt
a directory of 50 pdf files would be converted:
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Current version of OS -
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Hi,
I have a pdf file. i want to convert it to text file and do some work on it and later want to convert it back to pdf. Can this be done via unix?
or
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