On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
>Here's a quickie,
>
> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
>put it into a PDF format?

There's a text2pdf program in texinfo -- whether it's available
for SCO is another issue.

Bill
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Jeff Hyman typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:29:05PM -0400):
| Here's a quickie,
|
| Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| put it into a PDF format?

'txt2pdf' is commercial software, but not expensive, from
www.sanface.com.


--
JP

Bill Campbell typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:53:59AM -0700):
| On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
| >Here's a quickie,
| >
| > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| >put it into a PDF format?
|
| There's a text2pdf program in texinfo -- whether it's available
| for SCO is another issue.

Bill

I do have:

../opt/K/SCO/gwxlibs/1.3.2Ag/usr/bin/text2gif
../opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/spool/lp/bin/text2post

I do have 'cc' compiler. Any clues where to look for
text2pdf? I should know this answer, but rarely ever
need to find something like this.

- Jeff H

Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:14:32PM -0400):
| Jeff Hyman typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:29:05PM -0400):
| | Here's a quickie,
| |
| | Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| | put it into a PDF format?
|
| 'txt2pdf' is commercial software, but not expensive, from
| www.sanface.com.
|
|
| --
| JP

Ahhhhhh. I just replied to Bill, and if I waited a few seconds
for your reply, I'd save a few keystrokes.

Thanks JP,
- Jeff H

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
> Bill Campbell typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:53:59AM -0700):
> | On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
> | >Here's a quickie,
> | >
> | > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
> | >put it into a PDF format?
> |
> | There's a text2pdf program in texinfo -- whether it's available
> | for SCO is another issue.
>
> I do have:
>
> ./opt/K/SCO/gwxlibs/1.3.2Ag/usr/bin/text2gif
> ./opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/spool/lp/bin/text2post
>
> I do have 'cc' compiler. Any clues where to look for
> text2pdf? I should know this answer, but rarely ever
> need to find something like this.

I get mine from CPAN when, it does not exist in the native SCO stuff. You
may want to check it out. I do see it or other utilities on CPAN.

--
Boyd Gerber
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
>Bill Campbell typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:53:59AM -0700):
>| On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
>| >Here's a quickie,
>| >
>| > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
>| >put it into a PDF format?
>|
>| There's a text2pdf program in texinfo -- whether it's available
>| for SCO is another issue.

I goofed. It's not part of texinfo (that has texi2pdf), but in pdflib.

http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download/

This requires libpng, zlib, and libjpeg as pdflib provides image
conversions as well.

>Bill
>
>I do have:
>
>./opt/K/SCO/gwxlibs/1.3.2Ag/usr/bin/text2gif
>./opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/spool/lp/bin/text2post
>
>I do have 'cc' compiler. Any clues where to look for
>text2pdf? I should know this answer, but rarely ever
>need to find something like this.

Bill
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FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

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Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
@lonestar.cactus.com:

> Here's a quickie,
>
> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
> put it into a PDF format?
>
> TIA,
> - Jeff H

I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
pcl to pdf quite succesfully.

http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/

Marc

Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
| Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
| @lonestar.cactus.com:
|
| > Here's a quickie,
| >
| > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| > put it into a PDF format?
| >
| > TIA,
| > - Jeff H
|
| I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
| pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
|
| http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
|

When did it become owned by linut?

While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.


--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:11:27PM -0400):
| Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
| | Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
| | @lonestar.cactus.com:
| |
| | > Here's a quickie,
| | >
| | > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| | > put it into a PDF format?
| | >
| | > TIA,
| | > - Jeff H
| |
| | I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
| | pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
| |
| | http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
| |
|
| When did it become owned by linut?
|
| While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
| use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.
| JP

Before I continue digging, which would you think is my best bet?
I have downloaded 'txt2pdf-9.5' from sanface. It says it has a
30 day fre evaluation period, but:

# txt2pdf.pl

returns a licensing violation error:

This is an UNREGISTERED version of $producer1.
Registration fee is $39 for the Personal Edition.
>From $130 for the Enterprise Edition.
Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at
$SECURESERVER
or contact $companyname $SANFACEmail

so much for the eval :-(

Is pcl6 easy to get my hands on?

- Jeff H

Jeff Hyman typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:46:38PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:11:27PM -0400):
| | Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
| | | Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
| | | @lonestar.cactus.com:
| | |
| | | > Here's a quickie,
| | | >
| | | > Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
| | | > put it into a PDF format?
| | | >
| | | > TIA,
| | | > - Jeff H
| | |
| | | I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
| | | pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
| | |
| | | http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
| | |
| |
| | When did it become owned by linut?
| |
| | While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
| | use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.
| | JP
|
| Before I continue digging, which would you think is my best bet?
| I have downloaded 'txt2pdf-9.5' from sanface. It says it has a
| 30 day fre evaluation period, but:
|
| # txt2pdf.pl
|
| returns a licensing violation error:
|
| This is an UNREGISTERED version of $producer1.
| Registration fee is $39 for the Personal Edition.
| >From $130 for the Enterprise Edition.
| Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at
| $SECURESERVER
| or contact $companyname $SANFACEmail
|
| so much for the eval :-(

You could probably edit your way around that.

| Is pcl6 easy to get my hands on?

I happen to hate the way Brian packaged it.

I have a tarball for OSR5, talk to me tomorrow and I'll make it availabe.

--
JP

On 11 Mar, 20:46, Jeff Hyman wrote:
> Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:11:27PM -0400):
> | Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
> | | Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
> | | @lonestar.cactus.com:
> | |
> | | > Here's a quickie,
> | | >
> | | > * *Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
> | | > put it into a PDF format?
> | | >
> | | > TIA,
> | | > - Jeff H
> | |
> | | I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
> | | pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
> | |
> | |http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
> | |
> |
> | When did it become owned by linut?
> |
> | While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
> | use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.
> | JP
>
> Before I continue digging, which would you think is my best bet? *
> I have downloaded 'txt2pdf-9.5' from sanface. *It says it has a
> 30 day fre evaluation period, but:
>
> # txt2pdf.pl
>
> returns a licensing violation error:
>
> This is an UNREGISTERED version of $producer1.
> Registration fee is $39 for the Personal Edition.>From $130 for the Enterprise Edition.
>
> Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at
> $SECURESERVER
> or contact $companyname $SANFACEmail
>
> so much for the eval :-(
>
> Is pcl6 easy to get my hands on?
>
> - Jeff H

Ghostscript. Numerous open source and commercial products use it quite
graciously, including HylaFAX (which is available for SCO as well).

On Mar 11, 6:01*pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On 11 Mar, 20:46, Jeff Hyman wrote:
>
>
>
> > Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:11:27PM -0400):
> > | Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
> > | | Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
> > | | @lonestar.cactus.com:
> > | |
> > | | > Here's a quickie,
> > | | >
> > | | > * *Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
> > | | > put it into a PDF format?
> > | | >
> > | | > TIA,
> > | | > - Jeff H
> > | |
> > | | I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
> > | | pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
> > | |
> > | |http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
> > | |
> > |
> > | When did it become owned by linut?
> > |
> > | While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
> > | use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.
> > | JP
>
> > Before I continue digging, which would you think is my best bet? *
> > I have downloaded 'txt2pdf-9.5' from sanface. *It says it has a
> > 30 day fre evaluation period, but:
>
> > # txt2pdf.pl
>
> > returns a licensing violation error:
>
> > This is an UNREGISTERED version of $producer1.
> > Registration fee is $39 for the Personal Edition.>From $130 for the Enterprise Edition.
>
> > Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at
> > $SECURESERVER
> > or contact $companyname $SANFACEmail
>
> > so much for the eval :-(
>
> > Is pcl6 easy to get my hands on?
>
> > - Jeff H
>
> Ghostscript. Numerous open source and commercial products use it quite
> graciously, including HylaFAX (which is available for SCO as well).


Ghostscript is still available on the Skunkworks site. Only problem I
had when I tried it a few years ago was a substantial performance hit
on the system. That may have been an earlier version.

Mark

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
wrote:

>Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
>@lonestar.cactus.com:
>
>> Here's a quickie,
>>
>> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
>> put it into a PDF format?
>>
>> TIA,
>> - Jeff H
>
>I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
>pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
>
>http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>
>Marc


I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
which produces a much more manageable file size.

--

Richard Seeder

Richard Seeder wrote in
news:36slt3pg5lonks836vn5khgjo5robj23ko@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
> wrote:
>
>>Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
>>@lonestar.cactus.com:
>>
>>> Here's a quickie,
>>>
>>> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
>>> put it into a PDF format?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> - Jeff H
>>
>>I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
>>pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
>>
>>http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>>
>>Marc
>
>
> I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
> pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
> pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
> which produces a much more manageable file size.
>
> --
>
> Richard Seeder

Hmm, very interesting, will give that a look-see.

Marc

Marc Champagne wrote:
> Richard Seeder wrote in
> news:36slt3pg5lonks836vn5khgjo5robj23ko@4ax.com:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
>>> @lonestar.cactus.com:
>>>
>>>> Here's a quickie,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
>>>> put it into a PDF format?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> - Jeff H
>>> I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
>>> pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
>>>
>>> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>>>
>>> Marc
>>
>> I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
>> pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
>> pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
>> which produces a much more manageable file size.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Richard Seeder
>
> Hmm, very interesting, will give that a look-see.
>
> Marc

The latest version is actually "ghostpdl". I've recently RPM bundled it for
RHEL, and would be happy to test it under SCO OpenServer 5.0.x and send notes
to Brian's website....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: "Marc Champagne"
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: ascii to pdf


> Marc Champagne wrote:
>> Richard Seeder wrote in
>> news:36slt3pg5lonks836vn5khgjo5robj23ko@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
>>>> @lonestar.cactus.com:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's a quickie,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and put it
>>>>> into a PDF format?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>> - Jeff H
>>>> I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text
>>>> and/or pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>
>>> I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
>>> pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
>>> pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
>>> which produces a much more manageable file size.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Richard Seeder
>>
>> Hmm, very interesting, will give that a look-see.
>>
>> Marc
>
> The latest version is actually "ghostpdl". I've recently RPM bundled it
> for RHEL, and would be happy to test it under SCO OpenServer 5.0.x and
> send notes to Brian's website....

I just put 1.51 up.

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"Brian K. White" wrote in
news:005401c886af$0944c600$771fa8c0@miata:

>> The latest version is actually "ghostpdl". I've recently RPM bundled
>> it for RHEL, and would be happy to test it under SCO OpenServer 5.0.x
>> and send notes to Brian's website....
>
> I just put 1.51 up.

You managed to save me quite a few large headaches in the past few months,
hat's off to ya!

Marc

Brian K. White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia"
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
> To: "Marc Champagne"
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:08 AM
> Subject: Re: ascii to pdf
>
>
>> Marc Champagne wrote:
>>> Richard Seeder wrote in
>>> news:36slt3pg5lonks836vn5khgjo5robj23ko@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jeff Hyman wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
>>>>> @lonestar.cactus.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a quickie,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and put it
>>>>>> into a PDF format?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>> - Jeff H
>>>>> I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text
>>>>> and/or pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>>>>>
>>>>> Marc
>>>> I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
>>>> pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
>>>> pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
>>>> which produces a much more manageable file size.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Richard Seeder
>>> Hmm, very interesting, will give that a look-see.
>>>
>>> Marc
>> The latest version is actually "ghostpdl". I've recently RPM bundled it
>> for RHEL, and would be happy to test it under SCO OpenServer 5.0.x and
>> send notes to Brian's website....
>
> I just put 1.51 up.
>

You're so cool.

Any chance of putting up the latest HylaFAX from Sourceforge to go with it?
I've been dealing with a PCL->fax issue, and would happily integrate it

Nico Kadel-Garcia typed (on Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:10:29PM +0000):
>
> Any chance of putting up the latest HylaFAX from Sourceforge to go with it?
> I've been dealing with a PCL->fax issue, and would happily integrate it

At ftp.jpr.com, in the /pub directory, you can find:

hylafax522osr5.edge.bz2
hylafax522osr6.edge.bz2
pcl6forOSR5.tar.bz2
pcl6forOSR6.tar.bz2

Note that I haven't totally convinced Lee Howard about proper typerules
entries for PCL, but the typerules file that I use myself and have
included in those archives will properly invoke pcl6 on a pcl file.

I also just put up lzma4.32.5forOSR6.bz2 in my ftp collection. Lzma
is "yasp", yet another squeezing program, which will (usually) wring
more fat out of files than gzip or bzip2. (I'll try to get around to
compiling it for OSR 5 soon...)

--
JP