I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?

Craig

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 at 9:35am, Craig White wrote


I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?


Shockingly, there's ps2pdf...

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Craig White wrote:
> I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
> file' to 'pdf'
>
> I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
> file and wasn't what I wanted.
>
> How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?

ps2pdf

[natea@us-cfe002:~]$ which ps2pdf
/usr/bin/ps2pdf
[natea@us-cfe002:~]$ rpm -q -f /usr/bin/ps2pdf
ghostscript-7.07-33

I use it all the time

nate

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On 21-Jul-08, at 9:35 AM, Craig White wrote:


I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew
the

file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?

Craig




I have never used, but some i found quickly are:

CUPS-PDF is a PDF writer backend for CUPS. It is designed to produce
PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the
central fileserver. It will convert files printed to its queue in CUPS
to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure. It can
execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results to
the user.


Linux / Unix Command: ps2pdf
ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later
compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later
compatible) using ghostscript SYNOPSISps2pdf [options...] (input.
[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-]

ps2pdf12 [options...] (input.[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-]
ps2pdf13 [options...] (input.[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-] DESCRIPTIONThe
ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but
not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) product:
they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

The three scripts differ as follows:

-ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later
compatible).-ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-
and-later compatible).-ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.2 output
(Acrobat 3-and-later compatible). However, this may change in the
future. If you care about the compatibility level of the output, use
ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the
command line.



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Craig White wrote:

I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?

If it's already in your browser, Firefox 3.0.1 will print to either a ps
or a pdf.
File -> print -> general -> print to file and the output format (PDF or
Postscript) is to the right of the file name box.


BTW, FF3 has worked very well for me. Only problem I had was wading
through symlink hell, getting java set up.


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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:38 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 at 9:35am, Craig White wrote
>
> > I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
> > file' to 'pdf'
> >
> > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
> > file and wasn't what I wanted.
> >
> > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?
>
> Shockingly, there's ps2pdf...
----
which is what I thought but I kept searching for pstopdf which didn't
work but there is pstops, etc.

:::blush:::

Thanks

Craig

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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:55 -0500, Robert wrote:
>
> Craig White wrote:
> > I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
> > file' to 'pdf'
> >
> > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
> > file and wasn't what I wanted.
> >
> > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?
> >
> If it's already in your browser, Firefox 3.0.1 will print to either a ps
> or a pdf.
> File -> print -> general -> print to file and the output format (PDF or
> Postscript) is to the right of the file name box.
>
> BTW, FF3 has worked very well for me. Only problem I had was wading
> through symlink hell, getting java set up.
----
gotcha...I haven't upgraded this particular production server to 5.2 yet
- motivation I guess.

Thanks

Craig

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Craig White wrote:

I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
file' to 'pdf'

I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
file and wasn't what I wanted.

How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?



My firefox in centos-5 can "print-to-file" into a PDF right now ... I
don't think I added anything to it to get that.


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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:38 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 at 9:35am, Craig White wrote
>
> > I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to
> > file' to 'pdf'
> >
> > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the
> > file and wasn't what I wanted.
> >
> > How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF?
>
> Shockingly, there's ps2pdf...
>

Even more shockingly, a *lot* of folks seem to have forgotten relatively
quick, but not painless due to excessive results returned, local ways to
discover a lot of this stuff. So a reminder may help folks out.

If you run makewhatis every once-in-awhile you can then use "man -k
<keyword>" or, IIRC, apropos. I just ran a test using postscript as a
keyword and there were a few useful reminders in the exorbitant amount
of chaff returned.

HTH a lot of folks,
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Bill

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