There are a couple of quick ways to create a text file from the Linux Command Line or Terminal. Some of them have been explained in the following article. 1) touch command This is the most standard command to quickly create an empty text file. The command is quite simple to type and makes it quite easier to create several text files at once. In Linux you can compress a PDF file from the command line without losing its quality, with the help of ps2pdf tool, that is a part of ghostscript suite. From this article you will learn how to compress a PDF file and significantly reduce its size from the Linux command line. Cool Tip: With this in place, all I have to do is type make filename.md.pdf. Make will use pandoc to convert from Markdown to HTML, then pipe those results to wkhtmltopdf to create a paginated PDF. The beauty of defining the stylesheet to use as a variable is that I can override it on the command line if desired: Open Ubuntu command terminal. Run command-. Copy Me. mkdir -p ~/Templates/Text cd ~/Templates/Text touch document. Now, go to your Linux File Manager and right-click where you want to create a new file. Select New Document and then Text Document. This will instantly create a new text file on your Linux OS. Once we are done with editing, we can convert images into a single PDF: File → Save → Select Document type to PDF → Save. ImageMagick. ImageMagick is a CLI tool which allows you to convert images to PDF. As a CLI tool, it's much faster than Gscan2pdf. On top of that, we can automate the whole process! We can install it with the VeryPDF PDF to Image Converter Command Line is a cross-platform program that is developed for converting PDF to image. It has three versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The program can convert PDF to TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, TGA, PBM, PGM, and PPM. It also supports options to set the resolution, size, and color depth. When you are done with adding all the text and graphics in your file, click the Export as PDF icon from the toolbar. Alternatively, click the File menu and select Export as, and then Export as PDF. The second method gives you a lot of options for your PDF file creation. Click the Export button, and name the file if you haven't already done so. PDFSecure is a multi-platform command-line utility used to secure PDF documents as well as remove, or change security settings on existing PDFs. PDF CosEdit is a low-level tool for PDF inspection and manipulation. It allows users to create, browse, and edit PDF and other Cos-based documents at object level. Figure 1: The GNOME Files right-click context menu includes the Compress entry. Click Compress, and then, in the resulting window ( Figure 2 ), select .zip from the drop-down and click Create You are not obliged to put a sample text with echo. You can create an (almost) empty file using the echo command like this: echo > file.txt. This will create a new file with just one empty line. You can check the number of lines with wc command. 4. Create a new file using a text editor like Nano or Vim. Convert ImageMagick Tool. ImageMagick is installed on all InMotion cPanel servers. Primarily for image optimization, ImageMagick includes a conversion tool that can merge PDFs: convert. Type the program command, original PDFs in the order to be merged, then the filename for the final, merged PDF file. convert file1.pdf file2.pdf mergedfile.pdf. For using the "pdftk" utility for m