Get the latest Version of PDFprint from:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3469/pdfprint.html
or CPAN
Get and compile the xpdf, inside you can find pdftops and
pdftotext tools:
http://www.aimnet.com/~derekn/xpdf/
If you have just compiled
Ghostscript 5.xx, you can use pdf2ps script
Make sure you have Perl Version 5.003 or later on your
system:
http://www.perl.com/perl/info/software.html
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Create your personal pdfprint.cfg file.
You can change the value of converter and print
variables.
With converter you can use pdf2ps, pdftops to convert
PDF files, to PostScript files, pdftotext to convert PDF files
to texts.
In pdftops and pdftotext you can specify the pages to
convert with the options
- -f number the first page to convert
- -l number the last page to convert
In pdftops you can specify to convert to Level 1 PostScript
(default is Level 2 PostScript) with -level1 option.
In pdftotext you can specify to convert to 7-bit ASCII
(default is 8-bit ISO Latin-1) with -ascii7 option.
With printer you can use printing commands like lpr and lp
or monitor commands like more and pg.
Every PDF file, you have selected, is conveted with the selected converter
tool, then printed with the selected printer tool.
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Try to start PDFprint. Type ./pdfprint ./tests/pdfprint.pdf on the
command line