txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful program. It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
You can use txt2pdf like a pipe to convert every text or textual output speedly to PDF (e.g. reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications, datawarehouse).
You can use txt2pdf like a module inside your applications (cgis, extractors, ...) to convert on the fly every text to PDF.
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 tool, so you can use it in every OS supported by PERL5 (View the list of OS tested)
we distribute also a few executable versions (the windows version has inside 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
Read this good documentation
every word like mime:... will become a link that launch the correct application and will open the file
you can use background and foreground layers
every predefined encodings (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding), supported by the PDF format, is supported + the Unix default
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT
Support for Japanese fonts and paper formats
EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside background layer.
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence for every good idea or for every good modify
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