Printing man pages

[Reid Thompson]

Reid Thompson wrote:
> 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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wrapped in a script ...
----man2pdf----
#!/bin/bash

man $1 | enscript  -p - | ps2pdf - ${1}.pdf

echo "Created ${1}.pdf"
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