Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:40:59 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man -t odd page size Message-ID: <20081024002139.G4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20081023105011.893a479a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20081023035928.C55AC1065738@hub.freebsd.org> <20081023174911.P4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20081023105011.893a479a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. > > Yes, but it outputs an error message: > > <standard input>:2620: warning [p 25, 6.2i]: cannot adjust line > > The PDF file is 26 pages long. Maybe another PDF viewer will work > better (xpdf)? Modified to rm any /tmp/man.pdf first, then tried both xpdf and kpdf .. still the same problem. Here's a small (if messy) text clip from xpdf; all the underlining and overprinting stuff gets scrambled, plus some missing newlines later in the file .. N A ME N AM E ip fw -- IP firewall and traffic shaper control program pf w S YN OP SI S SY NO PS I S ip fw [- c q] a dd _ u_ e pf w - cq ad d r_ l_ However this time I noticed an error listed also, different to yours, maybe because mine is only 20 pages (this on 5.5-STABLE if it matters) sola% pdfman ipfw (source:.gz: No such file or directory /usr/share/man/man8/ipfw.8.gz).gz: No such file or directory Which is strange, and goes away if I redirect the first command's stderr to /dev/null, but it doesn't change the output. The groff output looks ok, not that I read postscript beyond seeing head and tail look intact. zcat `man -w $@` 2>/dev/null | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc \ | ps2pdf - /tmp/man.pdf && gv /tmp/man.pdf Seems that short (or maybe just 'some') mans work very well, but longer ones, (or just 'some others'?) have problems here, eg: sola% pdfman ip # looks great, 5pp sola% pdfman ipfw # overprinting misaligned as above, 20pp sola% pdfman csh # pretty rough and misaligned also, 48pp <standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a tab character) <standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space) <standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space) <standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space) <standard input>:1800: a backspace character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:1801: a backspace character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:1804: warning: numeric expression expected (got `v') sola% Possibly just my out of date ports (don't ask), quite likely ps2pdf? > > Well, a quarter of the people on this planet live in China, so by your > > theory shouldn't the FreeBSD lists, docs and code all be in Chinese? > > Let me follow this Micky Mouse Logic. :-) Because the computer has > been invented by a German, all computer stuff should be in the > german language. And now all the Americans can feel how the average > german computer user feels today: scared by all the things he doesn't > understand. :-) Charlie Babbage was German? Learn something every day on this list :) > > What actually works and is adopted in the real world determines that. > > Nota bene: > > The worst solution always prevails. But much sooner than the best, which takes forever. > People want cheap, they get cheap. We wanted free, we got free .. and don't have to shell out maybe $10k+ for a shelf full of CCITT / ISO docs! > > Ask yourself: how come the world uses TCP/IP for internet communications > > rather than the OSI X.200-X.219 suite? How come we're still using SMTP > > plus a pile of RFCs to deliver email rather than the X.400-X.420 suite? > > Having worked with the AX.25 protocol (on amateur radio), sometimes > I tend to thing... oh what a crap is TCP/IP... :-) Well I suppose the ITU have a TCP/IP-free X.20something net running somewhere, but it doesn't look like pushing TCP/IP off its perch .. cheers, Ian
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