[Info-vax] Txt2PDF Utility for long fils

[Joukj]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 11/10/22 6:53 AM, Joukj wrote:
>> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/9/22 11:02 AM, Shael Richmond wrote:
>>>> Is there a version of txt2pdf that can convert files longer that 132
>>>> characters?  The one I have only supports 80/132 characters.   Trying
>>>> to send a PDF report via e-mail that is around 200 characters.
>>> If what you have came from here;
>>>
>>> http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/text2pdf.c
>>>
>>> you could try changing some things like:
>>>
>>> int cols = 80;  /* max chars per output line */
>>>
>>> to a different value and recompiling.
>>
>> This changes the line length of the resulting PDF-file. I think the 
>> question is about the input TEXT-file. I do not think that is a 
>> problem (I tested it with a line of more than 300 characters) with the 
>> version 1.2.1 which Bill Pedersen addapted for OpenVMS. You can 
>> download the source code for this version via:
>> http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#TEXT2PDF
> 
> You're right.  It does say output line length and I wasn't paying
> attention.  In which case this is probably not what the OP is using, so
> he should try it.
> 
> I didn't know about Bill's version.  I dredged up my own variant of this
> one, attached here, that addresses some other problems with the original
> version:
> 
> - The number of pages and "locations" is limited only by the amount of
> memory you have instead of blowing up when you hit the limit.
> 
> - Added command-line redirection.
> 
> - Added command-line arguments to specify top and left margins.
> 
> I think I did use this for a while but at some point went back to the
> other program Hoff posted up-thread:
> 
> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt02b/vu/txt2pdf-c.txt
> 
> which was in heavy use in production until a year or two ago.
> 
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> 

Thanks.I merged your version into Bill's one. It is now as version 1.3 
on my webpage:
   http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#TEXT2PDF

        Jouk