Man pages in PS

[robvas]

Is there a site where all the man pages have been converted to postscript already, or a script that will convert all the ones on my system?

 

[wblock@]

What are you trying to do?

The -t option to man will produce PS output. Could do that for all of them with find(1).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi has all the man pages online, although they're not PS. OTOH, it's not just FreeBSD pages, and is handy for looking up Linux options when converting commands to FreeBSD.

 

[john_doe]

The CGI interface has a drop-down list to specify format. It has ps and pdf.
Here is a hacky way to use it with [man] tag:

[man=3&format=ps]printf[/man] - [man=3&format=ps]printf[/man]
that points to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?quer ... &format=ps​

 

[carlton_draught]

How to print man pages with gnome

I've found that since I've started printing out man pages they become much more useful, and I can annotate them as I go.

For those who are having trouble with this, I type
$ man desired_man_page -t > desired_man_page.ps

Then I open up file browser in gnome, find the file desired_man_page.ps, open it up with document viewer and print it.

 

[UNIXgod]

I've found that since I've started printing out man pages they become much more useful, and I can annotate them as I go.

For those who are having trouble with this, I type
$ man desired_man_page -t > desired_man_page.ps

Then I open up file browser in gnome, find the file desired_man_page.ps, open it up with document viewer and print it.

yup!!! If you wanted you could save some hd space and pipe it directly to your printer:

% man desired_man_page -t | lpr
btw -t is actually triggering groff.

 

[carlton_draught]

yup!!! If you wanted you could save some hd space and pipe it directly to your printer:

% man desired_man_page -t | lpr
btw -t is actually triggering groff.

Unfortunately when I do that, I get:

lpr: lp: unknown printer

Probably just ignorance on my part, but now I have printing set up in gnome, printing the ps is easy. As an added bonus, for long man pages I can also easily print 2 pages per sheet.

 

[wblock@]

lpr(1), the real lpr, not the CUPS one, defaults to a printer named "lp". That error happens when "lp" isn't defined in /etc/printcap. You're probably using CUPS, which is a whole different issue.