PARD: Converter
a2ps formats named files for printing in a PostScript printer; if no file is
given, a2ps reads from the standard input. The output may be sent to the
printer or to the standard output or saved into a file.
The format used is nice and compact: normally two pages on each physical
page, borders surrounding pages, headers with useful information (page
number, printing date, file name or supplied header), line numbering,
pretty-printing, symbol substitution etc. This is very useful for making
archive listings of programs.
catdoc is program which reads MS-Word file and prints its content to stdout
in readable ASCII form, optionally replacing some characters with
multicharacter sequences (for example TeX commands) and translating charset.
catdoc is accompanied with tcl/tk script wordview which allows to view word
files in X.
GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's enscript program. Enscript
converts ASCII files to PostScript and spools the generated PostScript
output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. Besides the standard
ASCII to PostScript conversion, GNU enscript can do many other things,
including:
- language sensitive highlighting
- The language sensitive highlighting
is similar to the Emacs' font lock mode. The highlighting rules are defined
in a separate configuration file that can be updated without recompiling the
enscript binary. The current version supports 33 languages and file formats.
Since the definition file is independent from the enscript binary, it is
updated more frequently than new enscript releases are made. To keep
up-to-date with latest highlighting rules, please, follow the GNU Enscript
WWW home page.
- support for different output languages
- GNU Enscript can
generate output to the following formats: PostScript, HTML, overstrike
(format that the nroff program generates), and RTF.
- support for different
input encodings
- The following input encodings are supported:
ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7}, ASCII, ASCII with some scandinavian extensions, IBM
PC, MAC, VMS, HP8, and KOI8.
mswordview is a program that can understand the microsoft word 8 binary file
format (office97). It currently converts word into html.
texi2html is a Perl script that converts Texinfo documents to HTML.
txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports
headings, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly
customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source
document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark
that structure explicitly using HTML.
© 1999 by Stefan Hornburg
<racke@linuxia.de>
Last modified 29. May 1999