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Basically, there is no way to convert Mathematica notebooks into PDFs without invoking the frontend. To print or convert it, you first need to open it and a naive attempt to open a notebook from the Mathematica command line yields the error FrontEndObject::notavail
In[1]:= NotebookOpen["file.nb"]
FrontEndObject::notavail:
A front end is not available; certain operations require a front end.
This means that you could either make a notebook to do the conversion or call the frontend from the command line. Here's a solution in the form of a Mathematica script - it can easily be turned into a Notebook or package file.
Save the following code as nb2pdf, make it executable and place it the directory with the files you want to convert or somewhere in your path.
#!/usr/local/bin/MathematicaScript -script
(* Convert Mathematica notebooks to PDFs *)
(* usage: nb2pdf file1.nb file2.nb etc... *)
(* outputs: file1.pdf file2.pdf etc... into the current directoy *)
(* If called with no filenames, this script *)
(* will convert all notebook files in the current directory *)
dir = Directory[];
files = {};
expandNb = False; (* Expand all cell groups in the Notebook *)
If[Length[$ScriptCommandLine] > 1,
Do[If[FileExistsQ[file],
AppendTo[files, file],
Print["File " <> file <> " does not exist"]],
{file, Rest[$ScriptCommandLine]}],
files = FileNames["*.nb"]];
With[{UFE = UsingFrontEnd},
Do[nb = UFE@NotebookOpen[FileNameJoin[{dir, file}]];
If[expandNb, UFE@SelectionMove[nb, All, Notebook];
UFE@FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["SelectionOpenAllGroups"]]];
UFE@NotebookPrint[nb, FileNameJoin[{dir, FileBaseName[file]<>".pdf"}]];
UFE@NotebookClose[nb], {file, files}]]
