On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+0000), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <i.m.ciob...@upcmail.nl> wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > >> PDF-Printer from the command line" > >>> > > >>> >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > >>> > >>> Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document. > >>> Step 2. Use latex. > >> > >> Assuming step 1 is reached, step 2 will make a dvi file. That was not > >> what the OP asked for... > > > > pdftex (your one step road to a pdf)? > > > > DESCRIPTION > > Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating > > file.pdf. > > > > Of course, B. will inform us that this amounts to eradicating a microbe > > with a > > gorilla (or vice-versa?). > > > >> > >> Ionel > >> > > If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > immediately upon encountering latex commands.
So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step" process? Cheers, David.
