Free to pdf software for linux

Printing webpages is great, but every browser renders a page differently. This can cause problems if you need to be able to print a page that looks the same no matter what platform or browser is being used.
Additionally, PDF files can be searched and browsed as a sort of notebook, making it a useful file format for large text files.
HTML_ToPDF is a PHP class that makes it easy to convert HTML documents to PDF files on the fly. HTML_ToPDF project grew out of the need to convert HTML files (which are easy to create) to PDF files (which are not so easy to create) fast and easily.
Main features:
- The ability to encrypt and set permissions on the PDF file on the fly.
- The ability to set the header and footer text, including the color.
- The ability to set the page size and margins.
- The ability to convert images in the webpage to images embedded in the PDF. The script tries to convert relative image paths in to absolute ones as well.
- The ability to use the CSS in the HTML file in the creation of the PDF. This includes remote CSS files as well.
- The ability to convert remote files.
- The ability to convert links into embedded clickable links in the PDF file
- The ability to scale the HTML page.
- Easy setting of any of these options through the methods of the class.
- Tries to fix quirks in html pages which break html2ps.
- PEAR error handling.
- Works on both Unix/Linux and Windows.
Enhancements:
- Raw HTML can be passed straight into the class, making it easier to convert dynamic pages.
- PEAR is no longer required.
- CSS via "link" tags now works.
- Handling of "input" tags was improved.
- Better instructions were written for Windows installs.

JUnit PDF Report project generates a PDF report from JUnit test results.

It uses Apache Ant to execute the generation, and Apache FOP to render the PDF document.

While automating tests for my company, I found that everything I need is available in the open source community, except printable test reports.

I couldnt sell the JUnitReport HTML reports to users. They see them as a technical artifact, and want to have a report that feels like a sign-off document.

Rather than building a solution in-house, I decided to initiate an open source project for it. I hope I can give something back to the community for everything it gave me.

Plone2PDF is a Plone product which exports various types of Plone documents to a pdf document.

The goal of this product is to add a plone action to export Plone documents to the PDF format.

Architecture
The products needs HTMLdoc to make the conversion to PDF.

Status
The status of this product is still beta (version < 1.0). Comments, patches etc. are welcome.

a2pdf project converts ASCII text to PDF format, with optional line/page numbering and Perl syntax highlighting.

Usage:

a2pdf [options] input.txt >output.pdf

Options:

a2pdf recognises the following command line options:

--help
Prints usage details and exits.

--doc
Displays full documentation and exits.

--version
Prints version number and exits.

--title
Sets the title to be included in the page header. If unspecified, the title will default to the name of the file which is being converted, or to STDIN if a2pdf is processing from standard input.

--timestamp
Boolean option - if set, the timestamp of the file to be converted will be included in the page header. This option is turned off by default.

--icon
Path to an image file which will be included as part of the header in the top left of each page. Image files may be in any format supported by PDF::API2.

--icon-scale
Scaling value for icon images, default is 0.25.

--header | --noheader | --notitle
Prints a header consististing of the page title, and optionally the timestamp and an image icon at the top of each page. This option is enabled by default, use "--notitle" or "--noheader" to disable.

--footer | --nofooter | --page-numbers | --nopage_numbers
Adds the current page number to the bottom of each page. This is enabled by default, use --nofooter or --nopage-numbers to disable.

--line-numbers | --noline-numbers
By default, line numbers will be included in the output PDF file. To disable this behaviour, use the --noline-numbers option.

--perl-syntax | --noperl-syntax
Enables or disables (default is enabled) Perl syntax highlighting. This feature requires that the Perl::Tidy module is installed.

--page-height
Page height in points. Default is 842 (A4).

--page-width
Page with in points. Default is 595 (A4).

--margins
--left-margin
--right-margin
--top-margin
--bottom-margin
Specifies the non-printable area of the page. The margin option will set all margins to the same value, however individual margins may be altered with the appropriate options. Values must be given in points. The default value for all margins is 48 points (0.75").

--font-face
Sets the font to use for the PDF file - currently this must be one of the PDF core fonts. The default font face is Courier.

--font-size
Font size in points, default value is 10.

--line-spacing
Line spacing in points, default value is the font size + 2.

--noformfeed
By default, any formfeed characters in the input stream will be processed and will act as expected, i.e. a new page will be started in the output PDF file. This can be disabled with the "--noformfeed" option which will cause all formfeed characters to be ignored.

Options may be given in any format recognised by the Getopt::Long Perl module, e.g. --name=value or --name value. Option names may be abbreviated to their shortest unique value.

If the input filename is not given, then a2pdf will expect to receive input from STDIN.

Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, RISC OS, and DOS. Antiword converts the documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 to text, Postscript, and XML/DocBook.
Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.
The programmers version is released under GNU General Public License. Check out the pages of the Free Software Foundation for a more detailed description about this license.
The programmers version does not contain any binaries, but the sources can be used to compile a Linux version. The sources can also be used to compile a version for most variations of the Unix operating system as well.
Users have reported successful compilations on FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Digital Unix (OSF/1), AIX, SCO and HP-UX.
Currently Antiword is able to convert Word documents to plain text, to PostScript, to PDF and to XML/DocBook.
Version restrictions:
- The conversion to XML/DocBook is still experimental,
- The support for the Cyrillic alphabet is still experimental.
Enhancements:
- Displaying of page headers and footers was implemented for PostScript and PDF output.
- "footnote" tags were added to XML/DocBook output.
- Support for text removed by the revisioning system was added.
- The KDE helper script kantiword was improved.

CUPS-PDF project is a PDF writer backend for CUPS. It is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver.

It will convert files printed to its queue in CUPS to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure. It can execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results to the user.

Important notes:

CUPS-PDF requires root privileges since it has to modify file ownerships. In recent distributions the "RunAsUser" option in cupsd.conf is set to "Yes" which removes these privileges. Please make sure to set "RunAsUser No" if you want to use CUPS-PDF.

make sure if any of CUPS-PDFs working directories (e.g. output) is a NFS mounted volume it is mounted without root_squash!

CUPS-PDF is known to fail if the gs (GhostScript) binary on a system is compressed by upx (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables).

if you are using SELinux make sure it does not interfere with CUPS-PDF


On MacOSX you will have to use pstopdf instead of AFPL GhostScript (see Readme).

PDF::API2 is The Next Generation of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files.
It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
Main features:
- Works with more than one PDF file open at once
- It presents a object-oriented API to the user
- Modification of existing PDF Documents
- Import Pages from existing PDF Documents
- the 14 base PDF Core Fonts
- a subset of the base PDF CJK Fonts
- a subset of the Microsoft Webfonts (not embedded)
- Adobe-Type1 Fonts in both ascii and binary format (.pfa/pfb)
- TrueType fonts (.ttf)
- OpenType Fonts with TrueType Outlines (.ttf)
- OpenType Fonts with Postscript Outlines (.otf)
- Joint Photographics Experts Group images (.jpeg)
- Portable Network Graphics images (.png)
- Graphics Interchange Format images (.gif)
- Tagged Image File Format images (.tiff)
- Portable AnyMap images (.pbm/pgm/ppm)

PDFKreator is an easy to use KDE tool for creating PDF documents out of a bunch of image files. It heavily uses ImageMagicks convert tool, tiff2ps and ps2pdf.