I have problem converting a file to PDF. I create the file with
echo ęąśćżńł > text
and convert:
enscript -O text -o - | ps2pdf - out.pdf
However, out.pdf has an encoding problem:
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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What kind of encoding problem is it that `out.pdf` has? – Erathiel Apr 21 '15 at 13:53
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I'd have thought `iconv -t latin2 < text | enscript -X latin2 -o -` would work, but apparently not. Anybody knows why? – Stéphane Chazelas Apr 21 '15 at 14:34
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1Replying to myself. It's [in this FAQ](http://www.markkurossi.com/genscript/FAQ.html). Probably not worth bothering with `enscript` and use `paps` or `a2ps` or other. – Stéphane Chazelas Apr 21 '15 at 14:40
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Paps not support headers and footers created with User. – Miko Apr 22 '15 at 10:35
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enscript just does not support Unicode. You need to use a different tool such as paps to convert text to PostScript. With --header option an output .pdf is similar to one produced with enscript:
$ paps text --header | ps2pdf - outheader.pdf
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I'm the author of paps. Please add a detailed feature request in the github repo, and I'll be happy to add this. – Dov Grobgeld Jul 29 '20 at 12:40
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I have had a better experience with the u2ps program written by Alex Suykov which produces much smaller PDF files using system Unicode fonts. This program is not in Ubuntu or Fedora; you have to compile it yourself. The usage is the same:
$ u2ps text.txt | ps2pdf - text.pdf
(Compared to u2ps, paps output is huge).
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