pstopdf isn't happy if you have both returns and newlines.  I pipe it  
through tr \\r \\n and that seems to fix a lot of the problems.

On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Barry Wainwright wrote:

> I’ve been trying to output a file to PDF and have tried both groff and
> enscript, followed by pstopdf, but they both produce pdfs with all  
> the lines
> superimposed on one another at the top of the page.
>
> Here's the shell script call I'm using:
>         set shellCommand to "echo " & quoted form of outputText & "| 
> enscript
> -B -n r -o -|pstopdf -o " & quoted form of (folderName & fileName)  
> & " -i"
>
> or:
>     set shellCommand to "echo " & quoted form of outputText --& "| 
> groff -T
> ps -i |pstopdf -o " & quoted form of (folderName & fileName) & " -i"
>
> Followed by
>         do shell script shellCommand
>
> 'outputText' contains several (mac formatted) paragraphs of text. I  
> have
> tried running the results of the echo command through a 'tr' pipe  
> to change
> line endings, without any success. I have also tried writing the  
> data to a
> temporary file with either mac or unix line endings, but again, no  
> change in
> the output.
>
> Any clues on how to use either of these commands effectively would be
> appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Barry
>