#! /bin/sh
if  test $# -eq 0
then
    echo "usage mantopdf <file or cmd>"
    echo "e.g., mantopdf touch"
    echo "e.g., mantopdf pdftotext.1"
    echo "e.g., mantopdf /usr/man/man1b/touch.1b"
    exit
fi

if test -f $1
then
        filepath=$1 
else

	filepath=` whereis $1 | tr ' ' '\n' | grep man | head -1 `
        if test -z "`echo $filepath`"
        then
           echo "man page for $1 is not found"
           exit
        fi
fi

filename=`path2file $filepath`
echo file path is:
ls -lt $filepath
echo file name is:
echo $filename

troff -man $filepath  > /tmp/t1$$
echo ..done troff
cat /tmp/t1$$ | dpost > /tmp/t2$$
echo ..done dpost

ps2pdf /tmp/t2$$  $HOME/$filename.pdf 
echo ..done ps2pdf
echo "the pdf file is:"
ls -lt $HOME/$filename.pdf

rm /tmp/t1$$ /tmp/t2$$
echo DONE