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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on 2 Aug 2010 14:31
Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> writes:

> I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript.
> Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd
> like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions?

In addition to enscript already mentionned, you could also use emacs
ps-print-buffer-with-face function.

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From: Jan van den Broek on 2 Aug 2010 20:57
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:47:16 +0100
Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> schrieb:
>I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript.
>Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd
>like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions?

text2ps or a2ps

http://193.166.3.2/pub/unix/postscript/text2ps/
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From: Gene on 2 Aug 2010 19:37
On Aug 2, 12:20 pm, Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...(a)ling.helsinki.fi>
wrote:
> Frederick Williams writes:
> > I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript.
> > Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable.  I'd
> > like the source so that I can see how it works.  Any suggestions?
>
> There's enscript. Lots of options. The versions I've used turn Latin-1
> to Postscript. Google finds it easily, in FSF Free Software Directory
> no less.
>
> Now I need something that turns UTF-8 to PDF. Output is no problem, I
> just pipe the Postscript to ps2pdf. For input, there's paps, which
> Google finds athttp://paps.sourcearchive.com/. Few options.

Ghostscript with the right "printer" option will take Postscript to
PDF.
From: Frederick Williams on 3 Aug 2010 09:29
Jan van den Broek wrote:
>
> Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:47:16 +0100
> Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> schrieb:
> >I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript.
> >Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd
> >like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions?
>
> text2ps or a2ps
>
> http://193.166.3.2/pub/unix/postscript/text2ps/

Thanks. That's just what I'm looking for.

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