Re: [Groff] How remove title?

[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:20:16 -0500, in message
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Peng Yu wrote:

> > pdfman < $(man -w ls) | groff -Tpdf -mandoc -c > /tmp/ls.pdf
> 
> I got this error. Do you know what is wrong?
> 
> groff: can't find `DESC' file
> groff:fatal error: invalid device `pdf'

It looks to me like the directory

/usr/{share,local/share}/groff/current/font/devpdf

couldn't be found.  Some Linux distributions by default include
only a very cut-down groff installation, useful only for
generating man pages for terminal use.  For general-purpose use,
the entire set of groff packages has to be installed manually.

If you're using a Red Hat system of some sort, it's fairly easy to
determine how much of groff you've got:

    $ yum list installed groff\*

If that command returns only something like:

    groff-base.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21

then all you've got is the minimal, man-page-only installation.
If you've got the entire thing, you should see:

    groff.x86_64               1.22.2-11.fc21
    groff-base.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21
    groff-doc.noarch           1.22.2-11.fc21
    groff-perl.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21
    groff-x11.x86_64           1.22.2-11.fc21

(Note that these packages are from my 64-bit Fedora 21 system.
Hence the ".x86_64" and ".fc21" fields.)

If you're running a Debian-based system, synaptic or apt can give
you the same information.  I don't know how to use them, though,
so I can't provide any examples.

Of course, if you've built your groff directly from sources, you
can ignore most of what I wrote above.  Except for the part about
the devpdf directory being missing.  That looks to be your
immediate problem.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

--Dale

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