text2pdf.1 (1804B)
1 .TH TEXT2PDF 1 "{{VERSION}}, 02/97" "Local command" 2 .SH NAME 3 text2pdf \- translating a text file into an Acrobat PDF file 4 5 .SH SYNOPSIS 6 .B text2pdf 7 [-options] [filename] 8 9 .SH DESCRIPTION 10 11 .B text2pdf 12 makes a 7-bit clean PDF file (version 1.1) from any input file. 13 It reads from standard input or a named file, and writes the PDF file 14 to standard output. 15 16 .SH OPTIONS 17 18 There are various options as follows: 19 20 .TP 1i 21 .B -h 22 show this message 23 .TP 24 .B -f<font> 25 use PostScript <font> (must be in standard 14, default: Courier) 26 .TP 27 .B -I 28 use ISOLatin1Encoding (default) 29 .TP 30 .B -s<size> 31 use font at given pointsize (default 10) 32 .TP 33 .B -v<dist> 34 use given line spacing (default 12 points) 35 .TP 36 .B -l<lines> 37 lines per page (default 60, determined automatically if unspecified) 38 .TP 39 .B -c<chars> 40 maximum characters per line (default 80) 41 .TP 42 .B -t<spaces> 43 spaces per tab character (default 8) 44 .TP 45 .B -F 46 ignore formfeed characters (^L) 47 .TP 48 .B -A4 49 use A4 paper (default) 50 .TP 51 .B -A3 52 use A3 paper (default A4) 53 .TP 54 .B -x<width> 55 independent paper width in points 56 .TP 57 .B -y<height> 58 independent paper height in points 59 .TP 60 .B -2 61 format in 2 columns 62 .TP 63 .B -L 64 landscape mode 65 66 .P 67 Note that where one variable is implied by two options, the second option 68 takes precedence for that variable. (e.g. -A4 -y500). 69 70 In 71 .B landscape 72 mode, page width and height are simply swapped over before 73 formatting, no matter how or when they were defined. 74 75 .SH BUGS 76 77 Backspace character is not processed, so the result of 78 .ce 79 .B "nroff -man man.1 | text2pdf > man.pdf" 80 has not a very nice touch. 81 82 .SH AUTHOR 83 text2pdf {{VERSION}} (c) Phil Smith, 1996., <pns@cs.nott.ac.uk> 84 85 This software can be find at URL: 86 .ce 87 http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pns/pdfcorner/text2pdf/ 88 89 .SH NOTE 90 This man page is made by Bertrand Decouty, February 1997.