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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
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