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Assuming you have an appropriate *roff toolchain installed you can always run the output from pod2man through it and get decent looking results. Most variants (such as groff) can be convinced to spit out PostScript which can then be run through ps2pdf.

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Re^2: Most printer friendly version of the documentation?
by blazar (Canon) on Aug 07, 2008 at 22:03 UTC

    Actually I don't have it on this very machine... (redmondish one with some *NIX twist, but not that particular one!) However I have reasonably easy access to some that do. Of course I may either install all the required tools (which I don't possibly feel the need for any other reason) here or install the "wanted" module there; or more reasonably, just work on the pod. Either way, too much work especially if you take into account my previous remark.

    All in all I would regard kyle's and Bloodnok's as better alternatives. (With the latter not intended for daily work, but as a precious resource "just in case...")

    Funnily enough, the story goes as follows: I just stumbled upon that particular module -as it often happens- and I'm not really sure if I'm interested in it, let alone install it, but I'm curious and just want to learn more about it - I would generally read it online, but then being tired of many hours staring at a computer monitor and having to stay away from the pc for a while in any case I decide to print it. And then I would like to do that in a reasonably printer friendly manner, albeit without being manic about it. And the funny bit of the funnily enough incipt is that eventually I'm spending on this matter more time and resources that I would have thought of: which in turn is fine! In fact I'm not complaining, for it's turning out to be very instructive...

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