I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to file' to 'pdf' I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the file and wasn't what I wanted. How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF? Craig
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 at 9:35am, Craig White wrote> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > file' to 'pdf' > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the > file and wasn't what I wanted. > > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?Shockingly, there's ps2pdf... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
Craig White wrote:> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > file' to 'pdf' > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the > file and wasn't what I wanted. > > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?ps2pdf [natea at us-cfe002:~]$ which ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pdf [natea at us-cfe002:~]$ rpm -q -f /usr/bin/ps2pdf ghostscript-7.07-33 I use it all the time nate
On 21-Jul-08, at 9:35 AM, Craig White wrote:> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > file' to 'pdf' > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew > the > file and wasn't what I wanted. > > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF? > > Craig >I have never used, but some i found quickly are: CUPS-PDF is a PDF writer backend for CUPS. It is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver. It will convert files printed to its queue in CUPS to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure. It can execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results to the user. Linux / Unix Command: ps2pdf ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript SYNOPSISps2pdf [options...] (input. [e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-] ps2pdf12 [options...] (input.[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-] ps2pdf13 [options...] (input.[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-] DESCRIPTIONThe ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) product: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The three scripts differ as follows: -ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).-ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4- and-later compatible).-ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible). However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility level of the output, use ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the command line.
Craig White wrote:> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > file' to 'pdf' > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the > file and wasn't what I wanted. > > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF? >If it's already in your browser, Firefox 3.0.1 will print to either a ps or a pdf. File -> print -> general -> print to file and the output format (PDF or Postscript) is to the right of the file name box. BTW, FF3 has worked very well for me. Only problem I had was wading through symlink hell, getting java set up.
Craig White wrote:> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > file' to 'pdf' > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the > file and wasn't what I wanted. > > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF? >My firefox in centos-5 can "print-to-file" into a PDF right now ... I don't think I added anything to it to get that. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080721/7bd48598/attachment-0001.sig>