{"id":25,"date":"2013-03-07T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:33:00","slug":"how-to-create-pdfs-from-man-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"How to create pdfs from man pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><code>man -t page_name | ps2pdf - page_name.pdf<br><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes this pdf actually looses some formatting (I don&#8217;t have any idea why), so it might make more sense to create plain ps file<br><code><br>man -t page_name &gt; page_name.ps<br><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: You might want to change page size in \/usr\/share\/groff_font\/devps\/DESC (by default it is set to letter there)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>man -t page_name | ps2pdf &#8211; page_name.pdf Sometimes this pdf actually looses some formatting (I don&#8217;t have any idea why), so it might make more sense to create plain ps fileman -t page_name &gt; page_name.ps Note: You might want to change page size in \/usr\/share\/groff_font\/devps\/DESC (by default it is set to letter there)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,19],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freebsd","tag-man","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}