Re: Print to PDF? Configure fonts used when printing?

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 07.10.2005 um 00:11 schrieb David Reitter:

> 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.
>

Yes, that's true! My PostScript printer is b&w.

On Monday, we had a holiday, I experimented with a2ps. Its output is 
*often* Apple compliant, meaning it can be converted to PDF with 
pstopdf. The problems are with the ISO Latin-{2,3,4,5,6,9,10} 
encodings. The Slavic ones can't be converted because of the a2ps 
internal use of the ogonkify engine. For the latter encodings a2ps does 
not seem to understand that many 8 bit characters are correct and 
printable ...

GNU enscript and a2ps are two utilities that convert text to PostScript 
with syntax highlighting. Their developers are not easily accessible, 
and their products are more kind of a workaround than a useful utility 
when your printer has the € built-in. I hope that in a2ps is a means to 
switch off ogonkify! Then it would be worth ...

Beside Perl there could be too a programmatic solution based on C and 
PDFlib.

http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/enscript.html
http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/index.html

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   Pete

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