[Simh] Printing to a pdf

[Johnny Billquist]

You know, a2ps have been around for ages, which takes any normal ascii 
text and gives you a postscript file. Very commonly used in all kind of 
printing filters as well.

And, as you noted, going from ps to pdf can easily be done with various 
tools, including ghostscript...

   Johnny

On 2020-05-26 19:02, Ken Cornetet wrote:
> Years ago I needed to do something similar. What I did was to write a 
> simple shell script to turn my text into HTML, then run it through 
> html2ps, then run the resulting postscript through ghostscript to get 
> PDF. I recall that other than being a bit clunky, it worked really well 
> – and my text to HTML script could throw in some nice embellishments to 
> the resulting document.
> 
> *From:* Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> *On Behalf Of *Johan
> *Sent:* Monday, May 25, 2020 5:38 AM
> *To:* simh at trailing-edge.com
> *Subject:* [Simh] Printing to a pdf
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having fun with my virtual VAX. Thanks to SIMH, its a wonderfull 
> experience to have a VAX at home.
> 
> Now, I have a question.
> 
> Is there a way to print to a pdf ? like a script running in Linux (the 
> host) who intercepts the LPT output
> 
> and creates a pdf ?
> 
> Johan
> 
> The Netherlands.
> 
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