Convert Any Man Page to PDF πŸ“„

Here’s a quick way to convert any man page into a PDF document for easier viewing, searching, and sharing:

# install necessary package
sudo apt-get install ghostscript

# script to convert a man page into a PDF
man -t tmux | ps2pdf - tmux.pdf

After you create the PDF document, use your PDF viewer of choice.


I’m using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), so I call Adobe Acrobat directly to open the PDF:

/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ DC/Acrobat/Acrobat.exe  tmux.pdf


But I also created a symbolic link to Acrobat.exe, then called it that way:

# create symbolic link 'adobe' to 'Acrobat.exe'
 ln -s /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ DC/Acrobat/Acrobat.exe /bin/adobe

# view 'tmux.pdf'
adobe tmux.pdf

Demo

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