Command-Line – Print a Regular File to PDF

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In gedit, printing a file gives an option of printing to file where the file can be saved as a pdf. How can I do the same thing from the command line?

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Here's a solution that doesn't involve OpenOffice:

sudo apt-get install enscript
enscript my_text_file.txt -o - | ps2pdf - output.pdf

There are more options to enscript, e.g. -B to omit the page header. See man enscript for all of the options.

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Ubuntu – Convert odt to pdf via command line, WITHOUT exporting as pdf form

One possible solution is to use "unoconv" while setting the --export=ExportFormFields=false option.

unoconv -f pdf --export=ExportFormFields=false mydocument.odt

References:

http://linuxsleuthing.blogspot.fr/2012/01/unoconv-is-number-one.html https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Tutorials/PDF_export

Ubuntu – Find and replace with on PDF file from command line

Use pdftk to uncompress the file, then edit via sed and finally recompress it.

pdftk input.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress
sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' uncompressed.pdf
# uncompressed.pdf now has all the changes
pdftk uncompressed.pdf output changed.pdf compress

Of course any text in images cannot be changes like this.

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