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From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs help <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF? Configure fonts used when printing?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:11:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DB080E-6790-4302-8124-4E343FEC53B5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f4cc4751a2de252e7c0b96996f3d672@Web.DE>


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Hi Peter,

>  Not exactly an (X)Emacs package, but Perl:
>
>
> In the end, I think, it would be most useful to write an own  
> script: you could use Unicode encoded fonts from Mac OS X (or  
> additions to these sets) and be able to print in every script!

The problem with a2pdf as I see it is that I won't get syntax  
highlighting from Emacs. I mean, there's really no point in offering  
a print function if it doesn't relate to what's shown on the screen,  
because otherwise one could just fire up Textedit or whatever and  
copy&paste the buffer over.

I mean, printing would have to respect the faces chosen. I don't  
understand why it should be impossible to generate PDF instead of PS,  
using the same methods that the current printing system uses. It  
seems to me there's a real lack of a package.

I suspect I'm just going to have to see if I can coerce the output  
system to print instead of showing things on the screen. ATSUI  
( being made available these days ) might help here, but I suspect it  
won't be a peace of cake due to the way letters are output.  
Unfortunately, lacking inside knowledge about how Emacs outputs stuff  
on the screen, I'm not really qualified to implement printing support.

Cheers
David



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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-04 10:43 Print to PDF? Configure fonts used when printing? David Reitter
2005-10-04 23:07 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-06 22:11   ` David Reitter [this message]
2005-10-06 23:35     ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-11 20:06     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.10931.1129061171.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-12 10:39       ` Piet van Oostrum

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