How to print to a PDF or PS file

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How to print to a PDF or PS file

On unix using the command a2ps

 a2ps -o outfile.ps -2 -A virtual -g -Ematlab4 file1.m file2.m file3.m

In Latex with the package listings, create a document containing essentially the following. (you could add headers to indicate which file you are listing etc…)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\lstset{language=Matlab,basicstyle=\small,breaklines=true}
\lstinputlisting{file1.m}
\lstinputlisting{file2.m}
\lstinputlisting{file3.m}
% etc ...
\end{document}

On Windows you can create a PDF from any application by using the free, open source PDFCreator. It works by adding a software printer that prints to a PDF file from any application (say Matlab’s GUI). It has a “Wait-Collect” button that allows to collect several files before printing. The documents can be selected in the PDFCreator application and combined with the Documents > Combine menu item.
On Mac OS X you can print from any application to a PDF by choosing the “Save as PDF” option in the drop down PDF menu that appears in the print popup window. a2ps is available on this platform via macports and Latex via MacTeX . Here is an application for combining PDFs: PDFLab

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