Display man pages in PDF in a simple way

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In the file /sur/bin/manpdf  enter the lines 

 #!/bin/sh
 file=$1 
 location=`man -w $file`
 man -l -Tps $location | ps2pdf -> /tmp/$file.pdf
 evince /tmp/$file.pdf

After type chmod +x /usr/bin/manpdf 

to display man page of ls for example 

 # manpdf ls 
 

Result : 
   

 

Notes : 

• you can change evince for an other PDF viewer
• you can add more option to evince for example to find text in PDF file ( -l ) 
• you can also ask a page number with other evince option ( manpdf evince)