Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.18-2.1
Severity: wishlist
Control: affects -1 a2ps
Control: affects -1 enscript
Now that both GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript are no longer actively
maintained, and have as of yet unresolved issues with their
integration into the modern Debian GNU system (such as: proper
UTF-8 and Fontconfig support), the ‘texttopdf’ filter (as
provided by the cups-filters package) seems virtually the only
sensible way to perform “plain text” to PDF conversion.
Therefore, my suggestion would be to perform whatever minor
modifications necessary to make ‘texttopdf’ also available as a
stand-alone (as in: /usr/bin) program, and provide some
documentation (such as a manual page.) Currently, it's not very
convenient to use; consider, e. g.:
$ LC_ALL=eo.UTF-8 dpkg --help \
| CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf \
"" "" "" 1 "page-left=40, page-right=40, cpi=11" \
> help.pdf
I guess that both the GNU a2ps and GNU Enscript Debian packages
could then eventually be retired. (Thus finally resolving
Debian Bug#180236, #229595, #498830, and probably a few more.)
TIA.
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