Re: [LINUX5250] first stab at functional scs2pdf

["Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice" <eraserhead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:31:55PM -0700, James Rich wrote:
> I have a functioning version of scs2pdf.  The diff is quite large so I
> didn't include it here.  I don't know how to get it to compile with
> ./configure; make; make install so I'll leave that to the autoconf people
> here.  I just copied to build commands of scs2ascii.c and ran them by
> hand.

in Makefile.am, add scs2pdf under `bin_PROGRAMS=', and name the .c sources
for it under a new section `scs2pdf_SOURCES='.  Reconfigure and make and it
should work.

>
> Notes:
> 1.  It only produces one page so far, even though you may have many pages
> of output.  The text just runs off the end of the page.
>
> 2.  The PDF is always 8.5x11 in., no landscape or other page sizes.
>
> 3.  It always uses Courier 10 point font (not 10 cpi).
>
> 4.  If your output is longer than the page is wide it just prints off the
> edge of the page.
>
> 5.  But it does work.  Use lp5250d with the outputcommand argument set to
> scs2pdf > outfile.pdf to save the file somewhere.
>
> The diff can be downloaded from:
>
> http://www.eaerich.com/scs2pdf.c.diff
>
> or just get the C source:
>
> http://www.eaerich.com/scs2pdf.c
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice