pdftk and apropos - general questions

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Mike Marchywka wrote:
> I've had a persistent problem getting apropos to work
> as it never finds anything appropriate. Is there
> something I need to do to make this work?
>
After each setup session, you need to run, /usr/sbin/makewhatis -u.




> The immediate need was trying to find pdf tools. Browsing
> the installs, it looks like pdftk will probably
> do what I need, along with other utilities I have.
> Are there additional pdf tools internal or external to cygwin
> people have found useful?
$ apropos pdf

on my system with all Cygwin packages installed yields:

a2x                  (1)  - convert Asciidoc text file to PDF, XHTML, 
HTML Help, manpage or plain text
dvipdf               (1)  - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using 
ghostscript and dvips
dvipdfm              (1)  - Produce PDF files directly from DVI files
dvipdft              (1)  - create thumbnail images for use with dvipdfm
e2pall               (1)  - convert all EPS files in a LaTeX document to PDF
ebb                  (1)  - extract a bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and 
PDF files
epstopdf             (1)  - convert an EPS file to PDF
fdf2tex              (1)  - Convert PDF formular data (FDF) into 
something (Con)TeX(t) can handle
gs                   (1)  - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language 
interpreter and previewer)
gsnd                 (1)  - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine) 
without display
gv                   (1)  - Postscript and PDF viewer
makempy              (1)  - Helper script for conversion of (PDF or 
PostScript) text to Metapost graphics
pdf2dsc              (1)  - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF 
document
pdf2ps               (1)  - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
pdfeinitex [pdfetex] (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfetex              (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfevirtex [pdfetex] (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
pdffonts             (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer 
(version 3.02)
pdfimages            (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) image 
extractor (version 3.02)
pdfinfo              (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) document 
information extractor (version 3.02)
pdfinitex [pdftex]   (1)  - PDF output from TeX
pdflatex [latex]     (1)  - structured text formatting and typesetting
pdfopt               (1)  - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer
pdfroff              (1)  - create PDF documents using groff
pdftex               (1)  - PDF output from TeX
pdftk                (1)  - A handy tool for manipulating PDF
pdftoppm             (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable 
Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.02)
pdftops              (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript 
converter (version 3.02)
pdftotext            (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text 
converter (version 3.02)
pdfvirtex [pdftex]   (1)  - PDF output from TeX
pdfxinitex [pdfxtex] (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfxtex              (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
pdfxvirtex [pdfxtex] (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX
ps2ascii             (1)  - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or 
PDF to ASCII
ps2pdf               (1)  - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdf12 [ps2pdf]    (1)  - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 
3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdf13 [ps2pdf]    (1)  - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 
4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdfwr             (1)  - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying 
CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript
pstoedit             (1)  - a tool converting PostScript and PDF files 
into various vector graphic formats
rtf2pdf              (1)  - MicroSoft Rich Text Format (RTF) to Portable 
Document Format (PDF) translator
texexec              (1)  - ConTeXt and PDF auxiliary program and batch 
processor
texi2dvi4a2ps        (1)  - Compile Texinfo and LaTeX files to DVI or PDF
thumbpdf             (1)  - generate thumbnail images for a PDF file 
created with pdftex
tiff2pdf             (1)  - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document
xpdf                 (1)  - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer 
for X (version 3.02)
xpdfrc               (5)  - configuration file for Xpdf tools (version 3.02)

The above, however, misses my favorite:

 man -t, which generates Postscript output that can be filtered thru 
ps2pdf. generating man pages in pdf format

Attached is a script that does this
> Basically on this new computer
> I've managed to do without Flash so far and I'd like to try
> to avoid installing any Adobe reader stuff.
Try Ghostgum ghostview. Windows compatible (no Cygwin, or X windows 
required and with print capability) and FOSS (free and open source 
software).

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