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Show HN: Rfc2pdf
As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!.
- zzo38computer 4y agoI would expect that the "gslp.ps" program included with Ghostscript would be suitable? You can adjust fonts, margins, header/footer, tracking, duplex, and others.
- brian68 4y agoTo be honest, I didn't know it. I tried to use pandoc,a2ps and enscript. I tried also gedit printing to a virtual printer and the results were quite good but I wasn't able to automate gedit from the command línea. I even tried LibreOffice.I knew Ghostscript but didn't even think to look for this possibility. Thank you for the info!