On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Philippe Sismondi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I notice that neither skim nor Apple's preview app convert postscript
> generated by the emacs postscript print functions properly. Ghostscript
> handles postscript output by emacs/aquamacs just fine.
>
> Is there a known reason for this?
>
Apple's Preview uses pstopdf to convert postscript, and there are
various reports of it having problems with certain postscript files
and fonts etc- it could be emacs that produces non-standard postscript
or maybe apple's pstopdf chokes on perfectly good postscript- who
knows. One way around it is to use enscript- you could make a little
emacs function to call enscript on the buffer and pass the output to
pstopdf. Another way is to use ghostscript (if you have macports then
install using 'port install ghostscript'), and then change your emacs
settings to use ps2pdf instead.
Add these lines to your .emacs file and then call 'M-x print-to-pdf'
to get a pdf file in the same directory as your source.
(defun print-to-pdf ()
(interactive)
(ps-spool-buffer-with-faces)
(switch-to-buffer "*PostScript*")
(write-file "/tmp/tmp.ps")
(kill-buffer "tmp.ps")
(setq cmd (concat "ps2pdf /tmp/tmp.ps " (buffer-name) ".pdf"))
(shell-command cmd)
(shell-command "rm /tmp/tmp.ps")
(message (concat "Saved to: " (buffer-name) ".pdf"))
)
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