Printing man pages

[Reid Thompson]

George wrote:
> Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using:
>
>    man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf
>
> which, by default, is actually
>
>    /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf
>
> results in a fairly unattractive PDF file.  The man page title is
> dropped from the output, and the top margin is borked.
>
> On the other hand, using
>
>    /usr/bin/groff -Thtml -mandoc `man -w grep` > grep.html
>
> yields something more satisfactory, but not in a format for printing.
>
> I'm finding that reading through the groff man page(s) is like
> [obligatory hippo joke], so I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
man groff | enscript  -p - | ps2pdf - groff.pdf

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