Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:29:31 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting manpages to postscript Message-ID: <20040105112914.P596@genisis.domain.org> In-Reply-To: <20040105111400.D596@genisis.domain.org> References: <20040105111400.D596@genisis.domain.org>
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Dru wrote: > > I'm trying to convert a manpage to postscript and have tried these 3 > variants: > > groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps > groff -Tps -mdoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps > groff -Tps -man /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps > > The file command always shows this: > > file ls.ps > ls.ps: Postscript document text conforming at level 3.0 > > But the resulting printout is hieroglyphics. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Dru Never mind. It helps to gunzip first :-) Dru
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