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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Mar 2001.
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 4.4

SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 4.4

From san...@sanface.com · alt.ascii-art · 17 Mar 2001 08:55 · View full thread · report
txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
(5 penguins at LinuxBerg, 5 cows at TuCows Mac, BeOS and PSION).
It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
Why do you need txt2pdf?
Most of your documents are text files
Usually, your reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications, datawarehouse are textual
txt2pdf is a PERL5 script, so you can use it in every operating systems supported by PERL5,
if you prefer we distribute also executables for these OS: Windows,Linux,Solaris,AIX,HP-UX,FreeBSD. Inside the Windows version a VB GUI (Visual txt2pdf) 
txt2pdf is a native converter, you don't need to pass through PostScript format
txt2pdf is specific for text to PDF conversion, so
you can mark coloured (using PERL regular expression) frases in the produced PDF files 
you can mark bold, italic, bolditalic frases in the produced PDF files 
you can add page number in every page
you can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file
you can add a border to every page
every word like http://... ftp://... mailto:... https://...
file:... ldap:... news:...  will become an URL
you can create a link to a specific page within a PDF document
http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
every word like mime:... will become a link that launch the correct application and opens the file
you can use background and foreground layers
every predefined encodings, supported by the PDF format, is supported + the Unix default 
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT
EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside background layer.
the fee for every licence is $85
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence for every good idea or for every good modify
  
txt2pdf is shareware
The txt2pdf source code is our company core business.
We trust you.
You can test text2pdf and modify it.
You can't use a modify version of txt2pdf for production purpose. You can't resell txt2pdf or a modify version of it without SANFACE Software authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source without SANFACE Software authorization.
  
What's new in this version
  
pdfindex 3.0, now it's free code in the contributed zone 
CreationDate has now the time zone information 
With verbose you can now obtain the PDF generation time for every processed file 

Test txt2pdf 4.4!
You can find it at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
Don't forget txt2pdf 4.x PRO at
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdfPRO.html
and txt2pdf PRO + Japanese at
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdfPROj.html

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Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 4.4
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