Format conversion & Document arrangement, Friedel Loinger, Wise Observatory

Format conversion & Document arrangement
by Friedel Loinger

Format conversion & Document arrangement

Most of the commands below are installed locally in all our Linux-systems ( no path required ) of the Astrophysics Department
If you get an error about 'Command not found', try to run it from our Linux server with:
/usr/local/Linux-server/bin/command

latex2html
rtf2latex
tex2pdf
tex2rtf
pdftex, pdflatex ( PDF output from TeX )
txt2html.pl
ascii2pdf
PStill ( PS/EPS/TIFF/JPEG to PDF converter )
jpg2pdf.pl
jpeg2ps ( jpeg2ps filename.jpg > filename.eps )
jpeg2eps ( /usr/local/Linux-server/bin/jpeg2eps filename.jpg )
rtf2ps (Ted - rtf editor)
rtf2pdf (Ted - rtf editor)
ps2gif, ps2ascii, ps2pdf, ps2epsi ( converts postscript to encapsulated-postscript )
dvipdfm (converts dvi to pdf )
dvi2tty ( converts dvi to ascii )
enscript
mswordview, word2html ( converts 'doc' to 'html' )
convert (ImageMagick)
fits2jpeg
stiff ( converts FITS images to TIFF format )
doc2ps, showdoc ( only available in /usr/local.cc ( TAU Computer Center )
antiword,xantiword,antiword_heb
openoffice
kword
log2vis
dwg2dxf
dxfscope
Converting html to ascii

html2text
html2ps
lynx -dump filename.html

Converting msword to pdf
doc2ps filename.doc doc2ps pdf > filename.pdf
openoffice : File -> Export to PDF
kword : File -> Print -> Print to File (PDF)

Creating merged PDF file

First convert other formats to PDF:

Converting a text file to pdf:
/usr/local/Linux-server/bin/ascii2pdf filename.txt

Convert a '.doc' file to pdf as follows:
doc2ps filename.doc doc2ps pdf > filename.pdf
or

doc2ps filename.doc doc2ps > filename.ps
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 filename.ps

Note:
The first 'doc2ps' in the line above is the command.
The second occurence is the name of the NT-server in the TAU Computer Center

Convert a TEX file first to PS, and then to pdf with the command
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 filename.ps
( default output is filename.pdf )

Merging all the pdf files is done in as follows:

pdfmerge input1.pdf input2.pdf ...inputN.pdf output.pdf
or
texexec --pdfarrange --result=output.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf ... inputN.pdf

Note: The first 'doc2ps' in the line above is the command. The second occurence is the name of the NT-server in the TAU Computer Center

Convert a TEX file first to PS, and then to pdf with the command ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 filename.ps ( default output is filename.pdf )

Note:
The first 'doc2ps' in the line above is the command.
The second occurence is the name of the NT-server in the TAU Computer Center

Convert a TEX file first to PS, and then to pdf with the command
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 filename.ps
( default output is filename.pdf )