Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Wright
06/17/2013 11:52 AM, jackson byers wrote: And just what is SVG? Scalable Vector Graphics. Wikipedia has a good description. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: h

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, jackson byers sent: > Tim, just what do you mean by "call up the print requestor"? > some path in http://localhost:631 ? > or some way to query lpr? Choose the print option in almost any GUI application. It's been years since I've used the command line to p

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/17/2013 03:30 PM, Suvayu Ali issued this missive: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: On 06/17/2013 11:52 AM, jackson byers issued this missive: And just what is SVG? I believe SVG is a GUI interface to subversion. SVG is a vector graphics format:

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/17/2013 11:52 AM, jackson byers issued this missive: > > > >And just what is SVG? > > I believe SVG is a GUI interface to subversion. SVG is a vector graphics format:

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/17/2013 11:52 AM, jackson byers issued this missive: Tim wrote: >Having said that, I haven't got cups-pdf installed, >yet if I call up the print requester >to print something (such as this email), >and pick the print-to-file option, >I have options to produce a file that's > PDF, Pos

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread jackson byers
Tim wrote: >Having said that, I haven't got cups-pdf installed, >yet if I call up the print requester >to print something (such as this email), >and pick the print-to-file option, >I have options to produce a file that's > PDF, Postscript, or SVG. And they all work. I am having trouble finding a

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tim writes: > lee: >> I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the >> task. Not even a simple mailmerge worked without crashing LO, and the >> closer I looked at it, the more bugs I found that were getting in the >> way. So I went with LaTeX (and had to do without tables

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> As far as the original poster's question is concerned, I have printed >> landscape documents, with text and diagrams. I used OpenOffice.org, or >> the LibreOffice version, and used its own export as PDF function. lee: > I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Rolf Turner writes: > On 16/06/13 16:03, lee wrote: > > >> Like I said, tables that may go over several pages are a pita with >> LaTeX. There are some packages to handle them, and the ones I tried >> failed miserably. If that was working, the output would look a lot >> better. > > I have had

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Rolf Turner
On 16/06/13 16:03, lee wrote: Like I said, tables that may go over several pages are a pita with LaTeX. There are some packages to handle them, and the ones I tried failed miserably. If that was working, the output would look a lot better. I have had good experiences with the longtable p

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:10:43 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it creates? > > Nope. Like virtually everything else, it puts the files where > the linux developers think they obviously belong (until the next > developers come alon

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tim writes: > As far as the original poster's question is concerned, I have printed > landscape documents, with text and diagrams. I used OpenOffice.org, or > the LibreOffice version, and used its own export as PDF function. I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the t

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus writes: > Well I don't know what do you need exactly, but in my own experience, the > best way for configure a document right and get it in pdf is to compose it > with LaTeX, but if you're not familiarised with it perhaps will be better > to use Scribus or if you o

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Terry Polzin writes: > My method, > > [command] | a2ps [options] -o - | ps2pdf - [output file name] Thanks, a2ps looks somewhat promising with options like: a2ps --borders=0 -B --columns=1 -l 150 Apparently it doesn't do line breaks and prints the ends of long lines outside the page, so I

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Terry Polzin
My method, [command] | a2ps [options] -o - | ps2pdf - [output file name] -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Ha

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 20:41, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/16/13 19:33, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: > You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? >>> Such as lpr. >>> >>> I

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 19:33, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Tom Horsley wrote: >>> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like >>> such as? >> >> Such as lpr. >> >> Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called C

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? Such as lpr. Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called Cups-PDF. So, you would use lpr -P Cups-PDF whatever And you

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Tom Horsley: >> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like Timothy Murphy: > such as? Any program that can print to the printer, and you can select which printer it prints to. You choose the PDF printout option. Having said that, I haven't got cups-pdf installed, yet if I call up th

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like > such as? Such as lpr. Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called Cups-PDF. So, you would use lpr -P Cups-PDF whatever And you'd get a whatever.pdf on your desktop (d

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: > You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? > to print > anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/16/2013 05:15 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:10:43 +0200 lee wrote: BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it creates? Nope. Like virtually everything else, it puts the files where the linux developers think t

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:10:43 +0200 lee wrote: BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it creates? Nope. Like virtually everything else, it puts the files where the linux developers think they obviously belong (until the next developers c

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:10:43 +0200 lee wrote: > BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it creates? Nope. Like virtually everything else, it puts the files where the linux developers think they obviously belong (until the next developers come along and change where they go :-). I

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread lee
Tom Horsley writes: > You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like to print > anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. That would require me to have cups running which I otherwise don't need at all: huge waste of resources. BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/15/2013 07:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like to print anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. Thats the procedure I normally use...makes it easy to get a padf configured and printed in a jiffy with very few problems!. EGO II -- users m

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Tom Horsley
You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like to print anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Well I don't know what do you need exactly, but in my own experience, the best way for configure a document right and get it in pdf is to compose it with LaTeX, but if you're not familiarised with it perhaps will be better to use Scribus or if you onle need a couple of sheets, with inkscape or gimp

converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread lee
Hi, is there any good way to get the paper to be in landscape as well as the text, for pdf files created with paps --cpi 20 --font="DejaVu Sans Mono" --landscape somefile.txt |ps2pdf - somefile.pdf This prints the text in landscape, and the paper shows in portrait so you need to turn your hea