man2pdf

Convert manpages to PDF.

NPM package

Install

npm install man2pdf

Usage

See the examples/js_ts directory for usage.

There are three files:

• JavaScript version (CommonJS): man.js
• JavaScript version (ESModule): man.mjs
• TypeScript version: man.ts

Bash script

The bash script is the src/bash/man2pdf.sh file, for which the NPM script depends on.

Install to PATH

You can add man2pdf to one of your PATH directories to make it directly invocable from the command line.

The repository's Makefile also provides you convenient operations:

• make install / make uninstall: Install the man2pdf script for the current user.
  • The man2pdf script will be placed in the /home/$USER/bin directory.
    • Please ensure that the directory /home/$USER/bin exists (if not, you need to manually create it first), and is included in the PATH environment variable.
  • Auxiliary scripts will be placed in the /home/$USER/.local/share/man2pdf directory.
• sudo make install / sudo make uninstall: Install the man2pdf script for all users.
  • The man2pdf script will be placed in the /usr/local/bin directory.
  • Auxiliary scripts will be placed in the /usr/local/share/man2pdf directory.

Usage

man2pdf <manpage> [/path/to/out_file.pdf]

• The <manpage> is the name (or possibly the name and the section number, separated by a space character) of the manpage. It takes one of these forms:
  1. <manpage_name> (The section is resolved automatically)
  2. "<section> <manpage_name>" (with a space in-between, so must surrounded by quotation marks)
• The [/path/to/out_file.pdf] argument is optional.
  • If omitted, it will be resolved to the format <manpage_name>(<section>).pdf, and saved under the current working directory.
  • If it is specified as an existing directory, the filename will also be resolved to the format <manpage_name>(<section>).pdf, and saved under that directory.