Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:33:48 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man -t odd page size Message-ID: <20081023053348.d21aca2a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <200810230114.10208.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200810222156.20959.gnemmi@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810221902330.5789@wonkity.com> <20081023035102.469988aa.freebsd@edvax.de> <200810230114.10208.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:14:10 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote: > Amm ... could you share it with us? > Please, please, please??? > :D In basic (not in BASIC) it consists the same commands that Warren posted. It's a simple two line script without significant error checking, and of course coded in an ugly way (as it is used to scare people off the command line): #!/bin/sh [ $# != 0 ] && ( zcat `man -w $@` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - /tmp/man.pdf && gv /tmp/man.pdf && rm /tmp/man.pdf ) By the way, it's called ~/bin/pdfman here now, because man2pdf would suggest that it takes a manpage as input and gives a PDF file as output, but it doesn't - it's used just like man, but produces and displays (!) the manpage file right away, giving the user the choice to view and / or to print it (from within the viewer); I chose gv, but you can use xpdf, KDE's or Gnome's default PDF viewer or the thing from Acrobat, if you like. Afterwards, the PDF file, stored temporarily, is deleted. One of its disadvantages is that you cannot search within the PDF file such as you can from within man's default pager less, using the / key. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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