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[ILUG] a2ps help

[ILUG] a2ps help

Declan Grady Declan.Grady at nuvotem.com
Thu Feb 19 12:10:04 GMT 2004


Hi folks,
Me again, with another (probably silly) question...

I have lots of ascii spoolfiles from printouts all in 66 line-per-page format, 
and am trying to make pdf's of them for archiving.

I've found a2ps and ps2pdf quite good and fast, but a2ps seems to want to make 
a minimum of 2 pages wide. i.e. I want a pdf page to be a single page of 66 
lines by 80 columns.
I've used..
a2ps --no-header /
--lines-per-page=66 --chars-per-line=82 /
--output=test.ps /
spoolfile

then 'ps2pdf test.ps' to make a test.pdf

I've fiddled with all the options, but always seem to end up with a page which 
has the right-half blank, with all my page squeezed onto the left half

What am I missing ? .. or... is there a better/easier way to make a pdf from 
ascii spoolfiles ?

Thanks,
Declan





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