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Re: Printing man pages


Reid Thompson wrote:
George wrote:
Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using:

man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf

which, by default, is actually

/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf

results in a fairly unattractive PDF file.  The man page title is
dropped from the output, and the top margin is borked.

On the other hand, using

/usr/bin/groff -Thtml -mandoc `man -w grep` > grep.html

yields something more satisfactory, but not in a format for printing.

I'm finding that reading through the groff man page(s) is like
[obligatory hippo joke], so I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks.

man groff | enscript -p - | ps2pdf - groff.pdf

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wrapped in a script ...
----man2pdf----
#!/bin/bash

man $1 | enscript -p - | ps2pdf - ${1}.pdf

echo "Created ${1}.pdf"
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