On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:22:07 +0530 "Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)"
<r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote
> Hi,
>
> I have some text which contains a few Unicode characters. I'm currently
> using enscript(1) to convert the text to PS and then to PDF; however
> enscript isn't handling the Unicode characters. Apart from that it's
> doing a beautiful job of the conversion, including word wrapping.
>
> Any other commonly-available command-line utility for converting text
> with long lines to PS which would handle Unicode? Alternatively, any
> way to convert Unicode text directly to PDF on the command line?
Probably the best way to do this is to use uniprint from the yudit
package:
* Install the yudit package.
* Get Postscript from uniprint, e.g.,
uniprint -in myfile.txt -out myfile.ps -font /path/some_unicode.ttf
where some_unicode.ttf is a TTF/OTF font file that has coverage for
the Unicode script in question. For example, for Hindi, install a
Devanagari font file, e.g., Lohit Hindi from the ttf-indic-fonts-core
package on Debian, and run uniprint as
uniprint -in myfile.txt -out myfile.ps -font
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core/lohit_hi.ttf
> Note: I know how to use OOo and friends, but I need something that can
> be put into a Makefile, not an interactive solution.
[...]
OOo is over-kill for this, but if one really wanted to, one could run it
in headless mode, and call it from the command-line. This might be useful
if one needs to convert formatted Unicode text.
Regards,
Gora
P.S. Please see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO-5.html for more
alternatives.
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