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t.clarke | 4 May 2012 15:47
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'padding' a print-file with extra lines

Hi

Does anyone know of a utility that will convert a print-file containing
form-feeds such that the converted output has no form-feeds but instead
has added blank lines to effectively 'pad' to N lines per 'page'.

This may seem an odd request,  but I need to take bog-standard print-files
with variable lines per page (delimited by form-feeds at arbitrary points)
and convert to files that are a multiple of N lines, such that when run through
a txt2pdf converter the resultant pdf pages align with the original source.
Hope that makes sense.......

Tim

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Andy McGarty | 4 May 2012 16:14
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Re: 'padding' a print-file with extra lines

On 04/05/12 14:47, t.clarke wrote:
Hi Does anyone know of a utility that will convert a print-file containing form-feeds such that the converted output has no form-feeds but instead has added blank lines to effectively 'pad' to N lines per 'page'. This may seem an odd request, but I need to take bog-standard print-files with variable lines per page (delimited by form-feeds at arbitrary points) and convert to files that are a multiple of N lines, such that when run through a txt2pdf converter the resultant pdf pages align with the original source. Hope that makes sense....... Tim -
Have you looked at htmldoc?  I use it to create customer bills with page breaks.

Not sure how it would handle just text with no html.  Might have to replace \n with <br> first?
oh and the form feed with <!-- NEW PAGE -->



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Fred Youhanaie | 4 May 2012 16:44
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Re: 'padding' a print-file with extra lines


On 04/05/12 14:47, t.clarke wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know of a utility that will convert a print-file containing
> form-feeds such that the converted output has no form-feeds but instead
> has added blank lines to effectively 'pad' to N lines per 'page'.
>
> This may seem an odd request,  but I need to take bog-standard print-files
> with variable lines per page (delimited by form-feeds at arbitrary points)
> and convert to files that are a multiple of N lines, such that when run through
> a txt2pdf converter the resultant pdf pages align with the original source.
> Hope that makes sense.......
>
> Tim
>
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The first utility that comes to my mind is "pr", but you will end up with a 3 line header on each page that you
will then need to filter out before converting to pdf.

HTH

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t.clarke | 5 May 2012 09:31
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Re: 'padding' a print-file with extra lines

Good spot  - thanks !
ps with the -t option works nicely, although the reports we produce contain
an initial form-feed character (historical) which results in an initial blank
'page' of 66 lines.  However, we already use a print-filter which removes the
initial form-feed on printing (called 'print' below), so that:
print report | pr -t - > output-file
appears to work very nicely

Tim
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