Emacs pdf print buffer

I cannot, however, find a way to enable or apply the visualline minor mode to the postscript buffer before it gets written to disk so to enable word wrap in the output. Emacs provides commands for printing hardcopies of either an entire buffer or part of. Thus, printbuffer and printregion produce the same output as lprbuffer and lprregion, respectively. Lyn turbak january 29, 2007 wellesley college linux, x, emacs, and java1 1 welcome to the zoo thissemester. Emacs provides commands for printing hardcopies of either an entire buffer or part of one. Open the html using your browser and print it from thereor use the browser to print the file to a pdf file. If you do have a suitable pr program for example, from gnu coreutils, set lprheadersswitches to nil. Mx htmlfontifybuffer can make an html view of any buffer in emacs. This includes the standard binaries provided by the gnu project, those available as msys2 packages and numerous thirdparty binaries. Instructions are provided under compilation and installation on windows, below. Emacs shortcut cheatsheet university of washington. The function prints the file in current buffer as a pdf in the same folder by. Word wrap for emacs print buffer to pdf stack overflow. The existing code written by rupert swarbrick, later modified by rory yorke, still leaves open the need to specify the file location with a saveas function e.

It lets you easily print using different printers and different operating systems e. Similarly, psprintbufferwithfaces is what it sounds like. Emacs has a command browseurloffile to send any html file to the selected web browser. The messages buffer is a special buffer, because it is the general output destination for any messages from emacs. Emacs will then call pr to produce the page headers, and print the resulting output as specified by printername. The problem with getting visual line mode to be respected is that it inserts soft newlines which get ignored by the ps renderer. These commands convert buffer contents to postscript, either printing it or leaving it in another emacs buffer. My printer is a brother laser printer, the only one on the network, shouldnt lpr be better than postscript.