Troff pdf

Learn more. Preview a troff file Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 9 months ago. Active 7 years, 8 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Did you really send your file to your printer, just to proof it? See forums. I didn't send anything to my printer because it isn't working i'm looking for a way to preview the file in a window. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. If you have ps2pdf, you can try to convert your ps file to a pdf ps2pdf x. Alternate names that may be encountered are listed, as are relevant translations for each character in the point name.

These special groupings are included where applicable. More than one explanation for a point name is given where it adds to the reader's understanding of function, location, or context. No list could include all the individuals who have made this book possible. Students interested in writing Chinese may thus see something of their construction. There are stylistic differences.

Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Cylian Cylian 6 6 bronze badges. Maybe groff and then pipe the output into ps2pdf? This worked here for a simple example I found. I've done a lot of groff which I think is the de facto roff standard today but only to produce man pages not PDFs , and to be honest that syntax above is completely unfamiliar to me.

However, I run man -k roff grep PDF and found pdfroff - possibly that is what you're looking for or you might have another tool on your system. Renan: That was my assumption to do. But generated PDFs were not as those have to be , I mean special formatting instructions were completely ignored by the groff , resulting those to appear in PDF.

Moreover, I used grog to guess, but with no success. EmanuelBerg: I am looking for a way to extract the textual contents retaining formatting information and obviously the images from these files, which should be readable to users without any programming knowledge. These are very old scholarly archives and need to be re-digitalized. As PDF is widely used open standard and there's lot of tools present to manipulate with, so I choose that. Maintainer: Bertrand Garrigues. If you would like to contribute to groff, or are interested to know where groff is headed, have a look at the Mission Statement.

Examples of groff usage with the mom macro set can be found in groff-mission-statement. The source code of the currently released versions of groff are available at the GNU host ; the current development version is available from a git repository. The current version is 1. To view the git repository in your browser, use Savannah's cgit interface. There you can also download snapshots; simply click on a commit entry line to get the URL. Additional contributions can be found here. Alternatively, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header line of subscribe to the relevant xxx-request list.