detex takes as input a TeX source file and strips the TeX commands.
The result is output to stdout. This is useful if you need a pure ASCII
version of a TeX/LaTeX file.
The CUPS Filters package contains backends, filters and other
software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution but is
no longer maintained by Apple Inc.
Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for
all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers
and some displays.
This port install the fontpacks with the Type1 fonts ready for X use with
Adobe foundries.
- Much from HTML 4.0 - that is relevant for printing - is supported
(incidentally, the PostScript and PDF versions of the HTML 4.0 draft,
were generated using html2ps). For example, all character entities
(except ‌, ‍, ‎, and ‏) are supported.
- Many possibilities to control the appearance. Starting with this version,
this is mostly done using configuration files.
- Support for processing multiple documents, also automatically by
recursively following links.
- A table of contents can be generated, either from the links in a document,
or automatically from document headings.
- Configurable page headers/footers, that for example can contain
document title, URL, page number, current heading, and date.
- When converting the PostScript document to PDF - using some other
program such as version 5.0 or later of Aladdin Ghostscript, or
Adobe Acrobat Distiller - the original hyperlinks in the HTML
documents will be retained in the PDF document.
- Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected.
KPDFTool is a Qt based frontend for GhostView and ImageMagick to
perform basic operations with PDF and PS (PostScript) files such
as merging or extracting pages, as well as protecting the text
from copying.
ltablex modifies the tabularx environment to combine the features of the
tabularx package (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) with those
of the longtable package (multi-page tables).
latexdiff is a Perl script that compares two latex files and marks
up significant differences between them (i.e. a diff for latex files).
Various options are available for visual markup using standard latex
packages such as "color.sty". Changes not directly affecting visible
text, for example in formatting commands, are still marked in
the latex source.
A rudimentary revision facilility is provided by another Perl script,
latexrevise, which accepts or rejects all changes. Manual
editing of the difference file can be used to override this default
behaviour and accept or reject selected changes only. There are also
scripts to handle multiple-file documents, and files under version
control.
A user level printer frontend
A clone of the proprietary enscript program from Adobe Systems. For those
who have never used enscript, it is a good ASCII to Postscript converter.
The main features of nenscript are:
. produces Postscript output which fully conforms to
the Document Structuring Conventions
. support for normal and "gaudy" output
. support for single or double column output
. allows insertion of titles and headers in any font.
. multiple copies of a document
Features additional to nenscript are:
. automatic wrapping of long lines
. availability under MSDOS
. executable is self contained - no additional files required
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover,
hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses.
Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.
Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:
Merge PDF Documents
Split PDF Pages into a New Document
Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
Encrypt Output as Desired
Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks
Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)
Pdftk is also an example of how to use a library of Java classes
in a stand-alone C++ program. Specifically, it demonstrates how GCJ and CNI
allow C++ code to use iText's (itext-paulo) Java classes.