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...

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.