On 2006-10-23, at 18:52:03, Philip Aker wrote: I should have finished that last post. One of the options these days is: /usr/libexec/cups/filter/nstexttopdf '' $USER jobx 1 '' zzz.txt 2>/ dev/null > zzz.pdf which seems to handle \r (and also RTF and HTML files). You can omit the 2>/dev/null to verify for errors. I can't remember for sure but you might want to check that 'lpstat - p' returns that you have a valid printer. Philip > On 2006-10-23, at 12:55:51, 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. > > Hi Barry, > > I suggest you break it down to several stages and then re-assemble > when things are working. > > * Do your 'tr' to a file, then check with 'nano -N my.txt' for > spurious carriage returns. You'll see ^M if it's bad. > > * The enscript options don't look quite right. > > r instead of -r > and I use "-p- " instead of "-o -" > > I worked with enscript quite a bit on 10.2 and found it easier to > set up the configuration and the .enscriptrc rather than working > with the command line options. But otherwise the enscript/pstopdf > worked quite well. > > * Maybe leave a space after the -i option for pstopdf > > I tried groff a bit but honestly I wouldn't trust it even if it had > a handwritten note from Mother Teresa. > > > Philip Aker > [log in to unmask] Philip Aker [log in to unmask]