PDF manuals
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Tue May 9 20:04:28 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:59 -0500, Alex White wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 03:39, Stephen Chadfield wrote:
> >> Deboo ^ <knowledgeful at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Where do I get all manuals in pdf? I need mutt, slrn, pine manuals.
> >> What makes you think all PDF manuals exist for all those programs?
> >
> > There should be some invocation of 'man -t ... | ps2pdf ...'
> > that would generate whatever you want in pdf.
> >
>
> Reading the man page on "man"
>
> man -t mutt > muttdoc.ps && ps2pdf muttdoc.ps muttdoc.pdf
>
> This will get you a pdf of that manual if you want it. It will be
> formatted as a man page as one would expect.
I just tested two different ways of getting man pages to pdf:
http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/pdf_stuff/
The way you mentioned, and using rman (from Fedora Extras)
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