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I have a program that generates console output colored with ANSI codes. How to convert it to PDF keeping the colours?
I need a unixish command line solution
grep
Posted 2013-02-15T18:11:24.280
Reputation: 231
How to convert ANSI colored text to PDF
Answers
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The best solution so far: aha to convert to HTML (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245121/a-library-to-convert-ansi-escapes-terminal-formatting-color-codes-to-html), then convert HTML to PDF e.g. with wkhtmltopdf.
I am still looking for a one step solution.
grep
Posted 2013-02-15T18:11:24.280
Reputation: 231
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I made a script that does ANSI->SVG. You can then convert to pdf with headless Inkscape.
Example:
ls --color | ./ansi_svg.py | inkscape -z -f /dev/stdin --export-pdf=ls.pdf
markrages
Posted 2013-02-15T18:11:24.280
Reputation: 111
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If you have calibre/pdfcreator/cutepdf kind of utility installed in your environment or computer. You can use lp to send text to printer.
Prateek
Posted 2013-02-15T18:11:24.280
Reputation: 66
Thank you, but they all are GUI stuff, and pdfcreator is Windows only. Don't fit. – grep – 2013-02-15T22:04:51.277
Found something close to what I need here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245121/a-library-to-convert-ansi-escapes-terminal-formatting-color-codes-to-html
and then print HTML as it is described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176476/how-can-i-automate-html-to-pdf-conversions