Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 04.01.2006 um 01:34 schrieb BRUCE INGALLS:

> (defun save-current-buffer-as-pdf ()

Hello Bruce!

Your site in German is quite funny -- somehow the words look familiar  
to me, but the sentences built from them ... am I reading the wrong  
newspapers and magazines that they don't make much sense to me? Which  
machine tried to "translate" the original texts?


You are using the usual ps-print functions and then ps2pdf to convert  
PS output to PDF. This is OK for US-ASCII and ISO Latin-1/ISO 8859-1,  
but it fails already in ISO Latin-9/ISO 8859-15, ISO Latin with €. It  
works for almost 200 characters, but there are 60,000 more in Unicode  
(BMP).

htmlize.el is a great tool, yes! It seems that it converts every  
textual buffer contents in any encoding without errors to Unicode  
(UTF-8) preserving text attributes in HTML. Together with htmlize- 
view.el, which opens the 'printed' buffer in the default Internet  
browser, one gets access to the system's native printing dialogues  
(printer choice, paper format, ...) and mechanisms and does not need  
to take care of any font issues for characters outside the small US- 
ASCII/ISO Latin world. For 'Carbon Emacs' on Mac OS X this seems to  
become the standard printing interface ... although some users and  
developers seem to have a 'strange' feeling when using this! And it  
does not need third party software (ps2pdf from Ghostview).

--
Greetings

   Pete

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this  
matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and  
pencil surpass him in intelligence. (Ernst Mach)