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What is txt2pdf?

txt2pdf is flexible and powerful tool to convert txt, text, textual report, spool into pdf (form, invoice, report, sale sheet).  It can be used alone, or you can use it from other applications to convert your documents on the fly.

Why do you need txt2pdf?

Most of your documents are text files. Usually, your reports from legacy applications, COBOL applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are textual. txt2pdf allows you to take those old text files and turn them into PDF’s, which means you don’t even need to pass the data through PostScript first.

You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL (we have customers that use txt2pdf on OpenVMS, MPE, …) or you can use a binary version on Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Mac OS X (if you’re interested in a binary for another operating system, such as FreeBSD, SCO Unix, Irix, Digital Unix (tru64), please let us know, and we’ll send you one).

Here there are some of the things that you can achieve with txt2pdf:

• Support for Japanese fonts (HeiseiMin-W3-90ms-RKSJ-H and HeiseiKakuGo-W5-90ms-RKSJ-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic and Japanese paper formats (JISB4 and JISB5).
  We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a Japanese char. This allows to convert this Japanese text into this pdf!
• Support for Korean font (HYSMyeongJoStd KSCms-UHC-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
  We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a Korean char.
• Support for simplified Chinese font (STSong GB-EUC-H) and traditional Chinese font (PMingLiU ETen-B5-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
  We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a traditionaland simplified Chinese char. This allows to convert this traditional Chinese text into this pdf!
• Support for Czech, for Greek, Polish, Hebrew, Thai and Cyrillic. (If you want different languages or different fonts for the supported languages contact us).
• Initial support for utf8. At the moment it’s possible to encode utf8 into iso8859-1. (if you need other encodings contact us).
• txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT.
• You can mark coloured (using regular expressions) sentences in the produced PDF files.
• You can mark bold, italic and bold italic sentences in the produced PDFfiles.
• You can add page numbers on every page.
• You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file.
• You can add a border to every page.
• You can use background and foreground layers.
• All predefined encoding (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the Unix default are supported by txt2pdf.
• It’s possible to run through txt2pdf infinitely (every configured second, sleep feature) on a specific directory (and also its recursive directories) moving the produced PDF to a specific directory, and the original text to a specific directory.
• mailto (mailcc, mailbcc) options: the possibility to send to the specified users (to, cc, bcc) the created PDF like attach. It’s possible to specify the title, the body, the SMTP host, the from user (at the moment you can use these features only with the executable versions).
• ftp support: the possibility to put the created PDF in the specified ftp site. It’s possible to specify user, password and the final directory.
• Internet specific phrases such as http://… ftp://… mailto:…file:… ldap:… news:… , setting linkuse, will automatically be made into clickable URL’s.
• You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document just adding http://…pdfdocument#pdfmark
• Every word like MIME:…, setting linkuse, will automatically become a link that launches the correct application to open that file.
• A PE (Personal Edition) License is ONLY $59.

Download txt2pdf

txt2pdf is available in several formats so you can download for your convenience.  You may choose to download an executable file or you can just download the perl source code.  Before you download our software, we ask you please to read the license and registration section to be aware of the licensing model which txt2pdf uses.