--- Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2001 16:54, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> > I have been playing with converting text files to ps format using
> a2ps,
> > then to pdf format using ps2pdf. For the most part it seems to work.
> > However, I cannot figure out how to maintain the format or font
> sizes of
> > the original document. I have read about everything I could get my
> hands
> > on but still cannot figure it out. I have been using kword and
> saving as
> > a txt file and proceeding from there. I have been using the
> following
> > commands:
> >
> > a2ps --borders=0 --output=<filename> <original-document>
> > ps2pdf <psfilename> <ps-to-pdf-file-name>
> >
> > If anyone has been doing this, or has any clue what I am doing
> wrong,
> > please let me know. This is driving me crazy!
>
>
> Well, a basic thought here... Since a normal text file doesn't
> really
> *have* any fonts associated with it... how can you expect the output
> file to
> maintain the original fonts?? There aren't any in the original
> file.........
Plus i fail to see why anyone would want to convert from text to ps to
pdf. Why not use the already existant text2pdf utility:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/txt2pdf/
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