Re: man -t odd page size

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for
you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok.

Yes, but it outputs an error message:

<standard input>:2620: warning [p 25, 6.2i]: cannot adjust line

The PDF file is 26 pages long. Maybe another PDF viewer will work
better (xpdf)?

Modified to rm any /tmp/man.pdf first, then tried both xpdf and kpdf ..
still the same problem. Here's a small (if messy) text clip from xpdf;
all the underlining and overprinting stuff gets scrambled, plus some
missing newlines later in the file ..

N A ME
N AM E
ip fw -- IP firewall and traffic shaper control program
pf w
S YN OP SI S
SY NO PS I S
ip fw [- c q] a dd _ u_ e
pf w - cq ad d r_ l_

However this time I noticed an error listed also, different to yours,
maybe because mine is only 20 pages (this on 5.5-STABLE if it matters)

sola% pdfman ipfw
(source:.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/share/man/man8/ipfw.8.gz).gz: No such file or directory

Which is strange, and goes away if I redirect the first command's stderr
to /dev/null, but it doesn't change the output. The groff output looks
ok, not that I read postscript beyond seeing head and tail look intact.

zcat `man -w $@` 2>/dev/null | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc \
| ps2pdf - /tmp/man.pdf && gv /tmp/man.pdf

Seems that short (or maybe just 'some') mans work very well, but longer
ones, (or just 'some others'?) have problems here, eg:

sola% pdfman ip # looks great, 5pp
sola% pdfman ipfw # overprinting misaligned as above, 20pp
sola% pdfman csh # pretty rough and misaligned also, 48pp
<standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a tab character)
<standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space)
<standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space)
<standard input>:1798: normal or special character expected (got a space)
<standard input>:1800: a backspace character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:1801: a backspace character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:1804: warning: numeric expression expected (got `v')
sola%

Possibly just my out of date ports (don't ask), quite likely ps2pdf?

Well, a quarter of the people on this planet live in China, so by your
theory shouldn't the FreeBSD lists, docs and code all be in Chinese?

Let me follow this Micky Mouse Logic. :-) Because the computer has
been invented by a German, all computer stuff should be in the
german language. And now all the Americans can feel how the average
german computer user feels today: scared by all the things he doesn't
understand. :-)

Charlie Babbage was German? Learn something every day on this list :)

What actually works and is adopted in the real world determines that.

Nota bene:

The worst solution always prevails.

But much sooner than the best, which takes forever.

People want cheap, they get cheap.

We wanted free, we got free .. and don't have to shell out maybe $10k+
for a shelf full of CCITT / ISO docs!

Ask yourself: how come the world uses TCP/IP for internet communications
rather than the OSI X.200-X.219 suite? How come we're still using SMTP
plus a pile of RFCs to deliver email rather than the X.400-X.420 suite?

Having worked with the AX.25 protocol (on amateur radio), sometimes
I tend to thing... oh what a crap is TCP/IP... :-)

Well I suppose the ITU have a TCP/IP-free X.20something net running
somewhere, but it doesn't look like pushing TCP/IP off its perch ..

cheers, Ian
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