Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:16:18 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Groff ps bold character output Message-ID: <20010504121618.A92641@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <200105040032.TAA18879@corserv.corserv.com>; from klyons@corserv.corserv.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:32:10PM -0500 References: <200105040032.TAA18879@corserv.corserv.com>
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:32:10PM -0500, Kevin Lyons wrote:
> This is embarrassing, but I can't remember how to get groff to print
> postscript properly. I'm trying to print a man page and do:
>
> man pwd | groff > file.ps
>
> Looking at the file with ghostview shows the bold characters appearing
> twice making the whole thing gibberish. I did solve this problem in
> the past with a man page, but I've spent the last three hours trying
> to find/reinvent the procedure.
This should work:
zcat /usr/share/man/man1/pwd.1.gz | groff -Tps -man > file.ps
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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