On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:42:22PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 12:43:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > There are other (simpler) options, look for text2pdf/text2ps. Personally, > > > I go the (La)TeX way. > > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > What do you mean by "searchable"? I can search in my LaTeX-generated > PDFs for some text, if you mean that.
That is exactly what I mean; using / in a PDF viewer. cupsfilter does what texttopdf does but its PDF foles are not searchable, but can be made so: /usr/sbin/cupsfilter in.txt | pdftocairo -pdf - out.pdf > TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the > more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. I am sure Tex is fine. I wished to deliver a solution using something failrly simple that is probably already on most systems. -- Brian.
