Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 30.06.2009 um 05:23 schrieb queries0:

> In my experience, what I miss most from Aquamacs is printing, and I  
> wish the other apps could deliver what Aquamacs delivers.


When the buffer just contains ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) characters,  
then the PostScript print entries from the File menu are the proper  
choice. Mac OS X converts PostScript to PDF and sends it to your  
PostScript printer. When your printer is dumb, then you've installed  
software (a printer driver) which converts the vector graphics  
(PostScript or PDF) to a flood of pixels.

When you try to print from buffers with characters from behind the  
basic ISO Latin-1 range then htmlize is the choice. It converts such  
a buffer to Unicode encoded HTML and delegates its further use to  
your Web browser. This one is embedded in Mac OS X and when you then  
try to print the OS will take over all work.

Htmlize.el by Hrvoje Nikšić: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/ 
htmlize.el. A sample of its capabilities can be seen here: http:// 
fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el.html – missing some CJK and  
other non-Latin content. Lennart Borgman's htmlize-view.el helps a  
bit to handle printing (http://piprim.tuxfamily.org/home/pi/emacs.d/ 
site-lisp/htmlize-view.el). (Fink supports some Emacs Lisp files or  
packages and can bring it to your Mac.)

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   Pete

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