On Sunday, January 07, 2018 01:15:06 PM Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > clarified, but I would point out that a variety of programs like txt2pdf > > exist (and work)--I assume, but don't know that they are available in > > the various Debian distros. > > Which txt2pdf? Sorry, I don't remember--it must have been on a machine prior to my current one (with Wheezy) as I don't see it--the prior machine was Lenny, iirc (Debain 5.n). But my statement about variety of programs was more intended to say that there are programs like txt2pdf, pdf2txt, html2txt (iirce)--in other words, such programs to convert between a variety of formats. > I tried the DFSG free one at > > https://github.com/baruchel/txt2pdf > > Not in Debian, AFAICT, but download, put in /usr/local/bin and install > python-reportlab. Gives searchable PDFs, fonts can be selected more > easily than with cupsfilter or cups-pdf and it has UTF-8 support. Looks > useful.
