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| Date: | Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:48 -0500
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Mike Marchywka wrote:
> I've had a persistent problem getting apropos to work
> as it never finds anything appropriate. Is there
> something I need to do to make this work?
>
After each setup session, you need to run, /usr/sbin/makewhatis -u.
> The immediate need was trying to find pdf tools. Browsing
> the installs, it looks like pdftk will probably
> do what I need, along with other utilities I have.
> Are there additional pdf tools internal or external to cygwin
> people have found useful?
$ apropos pdf
on my system with all Cygwin packages installed yields:
a2x (1) - convert Asciidoc text file to PDF, XHTML,
HTML Help, manpage or plain text
dvipdf (1) - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using
ghostscript and dvips
dvipdfm (1) - Produce PDF files directly from DVI files
dvipdft (1) - create thumbnail images for use with dvipdfm
e2pall (1) - convert all EPS files in a LaTeX document to PDF
ebb (1) - extract a bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and
PDF files
epstopdf (1) - convert an EPS file to PDF
fdf2tex (1) - Convert PDF formular data (FDF) into
something (Con)TeX(t) can handle
gs (1) - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language
interpreter and previewer)
gsnd (1) - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine)
without display
gv (1) - Postscript and PDF viewer
makempy (1) - Helper script for conversion of (PDF or
PostScript) text to Metapost graphics
pdf2dsc (1) - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF
document
pdf2ps (1) - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
pdfeinitex [pdfetex] (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfetex (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfevirtex [pdfetex] (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
pdffonts (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer
(version 3.02)
pdfimages (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) image
extractor (version 3.02)
pdfinfo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document
information extractor (version 3.02)
pdfinitex [pdftex] (1) - PDF output from TeX
pdflatex [latex] (1) - structured text formatting and typesetting
pdfopt (1) - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer
pdfroff (1) - create PDF documents using groff
pdftex (1) - PDF output from TeX
pdftk (1) - A handy tool for manipulating PDF
pdftoppm (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable
Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.02)
pdftops (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript
converter (version 3.02)
pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text
converter (version 3.02)
pdfvirtex [pdftex] (1) - PDF output from TeX
pdfxinitex [pdfxtex] (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfxtex (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfxvirtex [pdfxtex] (1) - PDF output from e-TeX
ps2ascii (1) - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or
PDF to ASCII
ps2pdf (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdf12 [ps2pdf] (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat
3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdf13 [ps2pdf] (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat
4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdfwr (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying
CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript
pstoedit (1) - a tool converting PostScript and PDF files
into various vector graphic formats
rtf2pdf (1) - MicroSoft Rich Text Format (RTF) to Portable
Document Format (PDF) translator
texexec (1) - ConTeXt and PDF auxiliary program and batch
processor
texi2dvi4a2ps (1) - Compile Texinfo and LaTeX files to DVI or PDF
thumbpdf (1) - generate thumbnail images for a PDF file
created with pdftex
tiff2pdf (1) - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document
xpdf (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer
for X (version 3.02)
xpdfrc (5) - configuration file for Xpdf tools (version 3.02)
The above, however, misses my favorite:
man -t, which generates Postscript output that can be filtered thru
ps2pdf. generating man pages in pdf format
Attached is a script that does this
> Basically on this new computer
> I've managed to do without Flash so far and I'd like to try
> to avoid installing any Adobe reader stuff.
Try Ghostgum ghostview. Windows compatible (no Cygwin, or X windows
required and with print capability) and FOSS (free and open source
software).
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name="man2pdf"
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filename="man2pdf"
#!/usr/bin/bash
# man2pdf / man2lpr: render the specified MAN "pages" as PDF;
# in the current directory; then browse or print
# By Lee Rothstein, 2008-05-17, 01:44 PM
# See:
# * 'usage ()', in this file
# or:
# * $ man2pdf -h
# at a command prompt
# for a complete script description
ProgName="$(basename $0)"
. set_title.s "$*"
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# Defaults & Other Initializations
Version=0.3.5alpha # Version number of this script
AllFlag=false # Print all pages that meet the command line
# specified topic?
BrowseFlag=false # Browse the specified pages?
HelpFlag=false # Output help?
DebugFlag=false # Print information relevant to debugging
# script, parameters or results
ManFile="" # Full path name of 'man' file; useful for
# checking alternate man page (e.g., debugging a
# man page before releasing or installing
PrintFlag=false # Print the specified pages?
QueryFlag=false # Just query for filenames to be processed and
# quit?
VerboseFlag=false # Print all status as you go?
VersionFlag=false # Print version?
ShortOpts="abf:hip:PqvV"
# Short options specification
LongOpts="all,browse,file:,help,inform,path:,query,print,verbose,version"
# Long options specification
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# usage () -- Help & exit with an apprpriate exit code
usage () {
cat $(pathname $0)/../help/${ProgName}.1.txt|less
exit $1
} # end of usage()
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# Preliminaries
TmpPath="$(tmpdir -l /tmp)"
if [[ "$?" -ne 0 ]] ; then
echo "${ProgName}: * error *:"
echo " Neither \$TMPDIR, \$TEMP, nor /tmp reference a valid"
echo " directory that can be used for temporary files and"
echo " directories. Therefore execution has been aborted."
usage 99
fi
# Define default path to save PDF output; i.e., a temp file.
SavePath="$TmpPath"
# Validate and normalize options requested
# Does the available version of 'getopt' supports long options?
if $(getopt -T &> /dev/null) ; [ $? -eq 4 ] ; then
echo "'getopt' is correct version!" >/dev/null
else
echo "$ProgName: * error *:"
echo " 'getopt' command is obsolete! Update 'getopt'!"
usage 98
fi
# Store results in OptionsParsed variable in case 'getopt' "barfs"
OptionsParsed=$(getopt --options "$ShortOpts" --longoptions "$LongOpts"\
-n "$ProgName" -- "$@")
error_code=$?
if [[ $error_code -ne 0 ]] ; then
echo "$ProgName: * error *:"
echo " Error in options passed to 'getopt'. Error code is:"
echo " $error_code ."
usage $error_code
fi
if [[ $DebugFlag == true ]] ; then
echo "Options, after parsing are:"
echo " $OptionsParsed"
fi
# Reset args to this script terminating options with '--'
eval set -- "$OptionsParsed"
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# Process all flags based on (a) name this script invoked by, and
# (b) command line options regardless of whether long or short
# option format
# Set Browse or Print Flags based on script name used
case $ProgName in
man2pdf) BrowseFlag=true ;;
man2lpr) PrintFlag=true ;;
*) echo "${ProgName}: * error *: Unrecognized name for this script!"
usage 99
;;
esac
# Set all other flags required by options
while [[ "$1" != "--" ]] ; do
case $1 in
-a|--all)
AllFlag=true
shift
;;
-b|--browse)
BrowseFlag=true
shift
;;
-f|--file)
shift
ManFile=$1
shift
if [[ ! -f "$ManFile" ]] ; then
echo ""
echo "${ProgName}: * error *:"
echo " 'man' file name specified ('$ManFile') with the '-f|--file'"
echo " option does" not exist. This must be the full path name of"
echo " an existing" 'man' source file."
echo ""
usage 1
fi
;;
-h|--help)
HelpFlag=true
shift
;;
-d|--debug)
DebugFlag=true
shift
;;
-p|--path)
shift
SavePath="$1"
shift
;;
-P|--print)
PrintFlag=true
shift
;;
-q|--query)
QueryFlag=true
shift
;;
-v|--verbose)
VerboseFlag=true
shift
;;
-V|--version)
VersionFlag=true
shift
;;
*)
echo "$ProgName: Error in option processing escaped"
echo " 'getopt' sanity checking. Option being processed"
echo " is $1 ."
usage 99
;;
esac
done
shift # All options and terminating '--' have been processed and
# purged from the command line arguments
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# Administrative Options Processing
# Debug?
if [[ $DebugFlag == true ]] ; then
VariablesOfInterest=" \
AllFlag \
BrowseFlag \
DebugFlag \
HelpFlag \
LongOpts \
ManFile \
PrintFlag \
ProgName \
SavePath \
ShortOpts \
TMPDIR \
VerboseFlag \
VersionFlag \
"
for var in $VariablesOfInterest ; do
eval echo -n "$var == \$$var"
done
fi
# Version?
if [[ "$VersionFlag" == true ]] ; then
echo "${ProgName}, v. $Version"
echo ""
fi
# Help -- If you ask for help, that's all you get (except for the
# version and debug info output already)
if [[ "$HelpFlag" == true ]] ; then usage 0 ; fi
#******************************************************************
# Main Body
# Respectively: create a PDF for a (a) those 'man' files that match a
# specified section number and topic, or (b) specified
# 'man' file (option '-f')
# In either case carry out all appropriate options requested
# If "$ManFile" is null, then man page comes from specified path, as
# opposed to 'man' retrieving it from "its domain"
if [[ -z "$ManFile" ]] ; then
#==================================================================
# 'man' page from general arguments: <sect_num> <topic>
# Test sanity of remaining non-option arguments
# All others should have been eaten ('shift') in options processing
case $# in
0)
echo ""
echo "${ProgName}: * error *: Missing argument(s)!"
echo ""
echo " Requires 1 or 2 arguments, other than options!"
echo ""
usage 2
;;
1)
ArgTopic=$1
ArgSectNum=""
;;
2)
ArgTopic=$2
ArgSectNum=$1
;;
*)
echo ""
echo "${ProgName}: * error *: Takes one or two arguments,"
echo " other than options (and their arguments), only."
echo ""
usage 3
;;
esac
# Find 'man' "page" source files that match topic and section
# number & report if required
# Collect them & count them
# If $ArgSectNum is null, then all section numbers of "$ArgTopic"
# will be collected/rendered/browsed
ManPages="$(man -aw $ArgSectNum $ArgTopic)"
NumManPageFiles=$(wc -l<<<"$ManPages")
if [[ "$VerboseFlag" == true || $QueryFlag == true ]] ; then
echo "$NumManPageFiles were found that matched: '${ArgSectNum}' '${ArgTopic}'"
if [[ "$NumManPageFiles" -ne 0 ]] ; then
echo "These are:"
for ManPageFile in $ManPages ; do
printf " $s\n" "$ManPageFile"
done
fi
fi
if [[ "$QueryFlag" == true ]] ; then # We've queried, were outta' here.
exit 0
fi
if [[ "$NumManPageFiles" == 0 ]] ; then
echo "${ProgName}: * error *: No 'man' pages match the topic, $ArgTopic,"
echo " in any section of 'man'!"
usage 4
fi
# Output 'man' "pages" appropriate to flags (PDF to browse, or PDF to print)
for ManPageFile in $ManPages ; do
# man_page_file_path_parse -- parse the full pathname of a 'man' page
# ("$1"), remove extraneous information and output it as:
# <section number> <topic>
SectNumTopic="$(echo $ManPageFile|xargs --max-lines=1 man_page_file_path_parse)"
SectNum="$(echo "$SectNumTopic"|gawk '{ print $1 }')"
Topic="$(echo $SectNumTopic|gawk '{ print $2 }')"
PdfFile="${SavePath}/${Topic}.${SectNum}.pdf"
# Get the page to current directory and capture resulting file name
# Remember, $SectNum only contains the section number of the file,
# the extension may be appended with letters, as in 'echo.3x'.
# We make a local copy of the man page file because we're going to
# remove blank lines from it and we don't want to muck with the
# original
ManFile="$(man_get $SectNumTopic -p $TmpPath)"
ManFile="$TmpPath/$ManFile"
# 'man -t' -- render in Postscript
# 'ps2pdf' (part of Ghostscript package) -- convert Postscript to PDF
man -t $ManFile|ps2pdf - ${PdfFile}
if [[ "$BrowseFlag" == true ]] ; then
cygstart ${PdfFile}
fi
if [[ "$PrintFlag" == true ]] ; then
pdf2lpr ${PdfFile}
fi
if [[ "$AllFlag" == false ]] ; then break ; fi
done
#=======================================================================
# 'man' page comes from specified file ('-f' option)
else
# "Trick" man for current directory man file if necessary
if [[ "$(basename $ManFile)" == "$ManFile" ]] ; then
ManFile="./${ManFile}"
fi
PdfFile="${SavePath}/$(basename $ManFile).pdf"
# Note that blank lines are not removed here, as above. The script, here,
# assumes you must be the author of this man page; and therfore the
# you "know" that you can't have embedded blank lines
# outside of '.nf' ... '.fi' sequences and expect to get Postscript
# (typset) rendering.
man -t $ManFile|ps2pdf - ${PdfFile}
if [[ $BrowseFlag == true ]] ; then
cygstart ${PdfFile}
fi
if [[ $PrintFlag == true ]] ; then
pdf2lpr ${PdfFile}
fi
fi
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