enscript - another useful prog. in the repos.

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    Ocky Registered Member

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    Stumbled across this one. Could be quite useful. Linux and the repos. are really amazing.

    "Enscript converts text files to PostScript or to other output lan‐
    guages. Enscript can spool the generated output directly to a speci‐
    fied printer or leave it to a file. If no input files are given,
    enscript processes the standard input stdin. Enscript can be extended
    to handle different output media and it has many options which can be
    used to customize the printouts."
    "enscript - convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and over‐
    strikes" (fr. man enscript)

    I have tried the following:-
    1) Text to Postscript (ps)
    ~/Desktop$ enscript test.txt -f Courier10.5 -G --word-wrap -o Test.ps
    [ 1 pages * 1 copy ] left in Test.ps
    2 line(s) were wrapped
    ~/Desktop$
    results in this:-

    enscript Postscript.png

    2) My text file to html:-
    ~/Desktop$ enscript test.txt -f Courier10.5 -G -whtml -o Test.html
    output left in Test.html
    ~/Desktop$
    got this:-

    enscript Html.png

    There are so many options the mind boggles .. eg. the fancy print configs. Check man enscript. :)
     
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