How to convert ANSI colored text to PDF

Question

I have a program that generates console output colored with ANSI codes. How to convert it to PDF keeping the colours?

I need a unixish command line solution

Found something close to what I need here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245121/a-library-to-convert-ansi-escapes-terminal-formatting-color-codes-to-html and then print HTML as it is described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176476/how-can-i-automate-html-to-pdf-conversions — grep, Feb 15 '13 at 22:14

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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I am still looking for a one step solution.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

answered Feb 19 '13 at 17:45

grep

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '17 at 18:58

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I made a script that does ANSI->SVG. You can then convert to pdf with headless Inkscape.

Example:

ls --color | ./ansi_svg.py | inkscape -z -f /dev/stdin --export-pdf=ls.pdf

answered May 16 '17 at 18:58

markrages

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '13 at 19:21

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If you have calibre/pdfcreator/cutepdf kind of utility installed in your environment or computer. You can use lp to send text to printer.

answered Feb 15 '13 at 19:21

Prateek

Thank you, but they all are GUI stuff, and pdfcreator is Windows only. Don't fit. – grep Feb 15 '13 at 22:04

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