make a pdf with txt in terminal

to print the manual page of a command in pdf, i will type in terminal (for eg. with the avconv command)

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man -t avconv | ps2pdf - > avconv.pdf

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now i want to print the list of audio codecs used by avconv in pdf, that is

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avconv -codecs | grep A

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how can i manage this ?

I guess there are many ways to do it. I usually filter text through mpage(1) like this

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echo some text|mpage -2|ps2pdf

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I use a HTML -> PDF converter called mPDF for generating quotes for my clients. You could try going that route.

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Originally Posted by schragge

I guess there are many ways to do it. I usually filter text through mpage(1) like this

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echo some text|mpage -2|ps2pdf

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thx for your response !

but i didnt succeed that way....

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mpage 'avconv -codecs' -2 | ps2pdf - > test.pdf

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returns

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mpage: cannot open avconv -codecs

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i did it graphically with gedit but hey this is not a geekclass solution lol

No, you should did it like this

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avconv -codecs|mpage -2|ps2pdf - >test.pdf

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yeah great thx !

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avconv -codecs|grep A | mpage -2|ps2pdf - >test2.pdf

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worked as well