PDF manuals

[Alex White]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:59 -0500, Alex White wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 03:39, Stephen Chadfield wrote:
>>>> Deboo ^ <knowledgeful at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Where do I get all manuals in pdf? I need mutt, slrn, pine  manuals.
>>>> What makes you think all PDF manuals exist for all those programs?
>>> There should be some invocation of 'man -t ... | ps2pdf ...'
>>> that would generate whatever you want in pdf.
>>>
>> Reading the man page on "man"
>>
>> man -t mutt > muttdoc.ps && ps2pdf muttdoc.ps muttdoc.pdf
>>
>> This will get you a pdf of that manual if you want it. It will be
>> formatted as a man page as one would expect.
> 
> I just tested two different ways of getting man pages to pdf:
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/pdf_stuff/
> 
> The way you mentioned, and using rman (from Fedora Extras)
> 
Oh. I've never heard of that before. Nice! WTG. Thanks for that info.

Sincerely,

Alex White