Ghostscript error [Solved]

[srikrishnan]

Hi All,

I have encountered the following error message, When I try to make a pdf of a manual page:

srikrishnan@srihari:~$ man ls | ps2pdf -> /home/srikrishnan/ls.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 8.61: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Can anybody help me to solve this?

Regards,
Srikrishnan

[Snowhog]

Re: Ghostscript error

The program p2spdf converts a ghostscript file (.eps or .ps) to a .pdf file. What you are attempting can't work. I'm searching for a command line solution, but have not yet discovered one.

[Rog131]

Re: Ghostscript error

This seems to work:

:~$ man ls | e2ps > ls.ps && ps2pdf ls.ps

e2ps - converts plain text into PostScript

and

ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript

There are text2pdf but i can't find it from the repositories:

text2pdf version 1.1
http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/

This is the latest version of text2pdf, and offers a number of improvements over version 1.0. As you might be able to guess from the name, text2pdf converts text files to PDF.

[Snowhog]

Re: Ghostscript error

Beat me to the punch Rog! I also came across this solution:

man ls | enscript -o ls.ps | ps2pdf ls.ps ls.pdf

which also works perfectly. Again, more than one solution to a problem using Linux!

Enscript converts text files to PostScript or to other output languages.

Added: The beauty of my solution is that enscript is available by default, while e2ps is a package that needs to be installed.

[Rog131]

Re: Ghostscript error

Again, more than one solution to a problem using Linux!

Printing a Man Page
http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/CSEL..._man_page.html

You can create a copy of an on-line manual page in PostScript or ASCII format using the groff command. You can then print this file on a PostScript printer.

[srikrishnan]

Re: Ghostscript error

Hi snowhug/Rog131,

Again Thanks for you both. Now those works well

Regards,
Srikrishnan

[Snowhog]

Re: Ghostscript error [Solved]

Now when was the last time Windoze gave this kind of support to a user, and without a fee? That's one of the great joys I have being a member of this Forum, and from using Linux. It's simply exhilarating!