Re: 'padding' a print-file with extra lines

Fred Youhanaie <[email protected]>
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On 04/05/12 14:47, t.clarke wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know of a utility that will convert a print-file containing
> form-feeds such that the converted output has no form-feeds but instead
> has added blank lines to effectively 'pad' to N lines per 'page'.
>
> This may seem an odd request,  but I need to take bog-standard print-files
> with variable lines per page (delimited by form-feeds at arbitrary points)
> and convert to files that are a multiple of N lines, such that when run through
> a txt2pdf converter the resultant pdf pages align with the original source.
> Hope that makes sense.......
>
> Tim
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The first utility that comes to my mind is "pr", but you will end up with a 3 line header on each page that you will then need to filter out before converting to pdf.

HTH

Fred
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