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Open a man page as a PDF on macOS
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macOS: open a man page as a PDF

From the command line:

man -t <manpage> | open -f -a Preview.app

-t outputs as postscript, which Preview automatically converts to PDF.

Thanks to SlaunchaMan's reddit post

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