Conversion Tools: Printer Languages
SwiftConvert
is a converter of PCL, HPGL, and TIFF to PDF, TIFF and other distribution formats. Integrate high-volume batch conversion into your server-based application or workflow. Or convert groups of files without programming using the simple Multi-File Windows Utility.
ASCII Linux tool pr
Ghostscript (Postscript -> N.N.)
pbm2ppa:
A Ghostscript PBM converter for printing to HP
platform: Linux
pdf2ps (PS <-> PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format)
platform:
Linux
a2ps (ASCII -> PS)
platform: Linux
txtbdf2ps
is a small, self-contained Perl script that converts ASCII
text files into Postscript using a given bitmap (BDF) font. (The
character bitmaps are embedded into the PS file as a Type 3 font.)
Features include justified paragraphs, adjustable margins, and a slim &
simple resulting PS.
platform: Linux and others (Perl)
license: Public Domain
a2ps:
An Any to PostScript converter
platform: Linux
The TeX DVI to PostScript converter
platform: Linux
A TeX (dvi) to ASCII converter
platform: Linux
catdvi
translates a TeX Device Independent (DVI) file into a readable
plaintext file. It is intended as a superior free replacement for the dvi2tty
utility.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
Tool to convert dvi files
platform: Linux
txt2pdf
is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program. It's a converter from
text files to PDF format files. Every URL https: file: ldap: news: inside the
text document will be converted to a PDF link.
platform: Linux and other OSs with PERL5
license: shareware
txt2pdf.cgi
is a flexible Perl cgi-bin application based on txt2pdf. It
allows you to enter your text document in a form and immediately
transform it in a PDF document.
license: shareware
COLD
is a tool to convert old LyX documents to the new version of LyX
platform:
Linux
eg:
Expert Guide, a text mode Norton Guide reader for Linux
platform: Linux
GNU Enscript
converts text files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript
output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. If no input files
are given, enscript processes standard input. Enscript can be extended to
handle different output media and it has many options which can be used to
customize printouts.platform: Linux
Paai's Text Utilities:
A collection of programs and Unix-scripts useful for playing with text-files
platform: Linux
PostShop:
A software provides fast installation and color PostScript Printing with the
lowest cost Inkjet and PCL Printers
platform: Linux
Quikscript:
A PostScript text formatting/typesetting program
platform: Linux
RTF-Tools:
A set of RTF (Rich Text Format) translation tools
platform: Linux
Sgrep:
Sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching text files and
filtering text streams for structured criteria. Sgrep implements
a query language based on so called region expressions.
Like grep, sgrep can be used for any kind of text files. However it
is most useful for text files containing some kind of structured text.
A file containing structured text could be defined as a file, which
obeys some syntax. Examples of structured text files are SGML, HTML,
C, Tex and mail files.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
textps:
A program which generates PostScript from ordinary text.
platform: Linux
TPROC:
A simple utility that handles processing of Text Files
platform: Linux
troffcvt:
A translator that turns troff input into a form that can be more easily
processed
platform: Linux
Vprint
A text formatter similar to troff-like formatters
platform: Linux
The t1utils
package is a revision of I. Lee Hetherington's beloved t1utils
package for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts. It consists of utilities to
change PFB (binary) fonts into PFA (ASCII) format for printing (and back), to
translate fonts into a human-readable and -editable format (and back) and to
translate a Type 1 font in Mac format into PFB or PFA.
platform: Linux
license: BSD type
PStill is a PostScript-to-PDF converter featuring Type 1 font embedding,
PDF-1.2 compatible compression and more. All *NIX command line versions may be
used freely for private and educational purposes. PStill 1.20 is currently
available for Linux/Intel, Solaris/Sparc and IRIX 6.x/MIPS and can be
downloaded from N.N.
Also available on the page is the current Windows release 1.06 which is now
based on the same engine as the *NIX versions, the fully supported Mac OS X
program, the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep releases and older versions for FreeBSD and
HPUX. PStill 1.20 too will be ported to FreeBSD, HPUX and BeOS and perhaps
others.
platform: Linux
docbook2X
is the collective name for a bunch of tools for converting DocBook
documents into the traditional Unix documentation formats roff -man pages and
GNU Texinfo.
platform: Linux
asa reads text with ASA carriage control characters from the files
specified as its command line arguments, or standard input if none
are specified, and converts them into line printer control sequences.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
The Pscript Document Publishing
system consists of a PostScript to text
converter that also extracts table of contents and page numbers from
the PostScript document, a set of scripts to create images from a
PostScript file, a configurable CGI program to display the output of
the above tools as HTML pages on the Web, and some other related useful
utilities and scripts.
platform: Linux
license: OpenSource
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