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Preview can no longer directly open .ps files. For shorter man pages, I use the Terminal apps "Man Page" profile which you can get to by right clicking the com
by wpm 2y ago
Preview can no longer directly open .ps files.
For shorter man pages, I use the Terminal apps "Man Page" profile which you can get to by right clicking the command name, and selecting "View man page". Then, scroll to the bottom to render the entire thing, and Command+P > Save to PDF.
For long shit, parts will get truncated (overfilling the scrollback? I have no clue), so I have to export the ps with man and convert to PDF with ps2pdf. This puts everything in a basic Times New Roman font and I hate it. Much preferred when I could directly open the output on the Mac.
- kccqzy 2y agoThe font is Times, not Times New Roman. The original PostScript standard only mandated three font sets: Times, Helvetica, Courier. Personally when reading long man pages (or any long documents), I greatly prefer a proportional type face over a monospace one like in the terminal. These days, people's hand-written markdown also overuses the backtick syntax to make too many things monospace. Using a proportional font just feels right to me.