Seiji Zenitani
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Wed Nov 30 01:35:03 JST 2005
Hi, On 2005/11/30, at 1:06, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 29.11.2005 um 13:44 schrieb Zenitani Seiji: > >> However, if the file content is exported to a pdf file, Emacs >> would be more user-friendly, because the user can preview the >> content via Preview.app (not Safari). > > I can't see the benefit of Preview. I almost never use it, TeXShop > is, at least on Panther, a much better PDF viewer. And it does not > have to be Safari. All you need to do is to make your personal > default browser be the system's default application for file > extensions like htm or html or HTM or HTML. For me this is OmniWeb, > before it was Shiira. > > But sure: there can be more than one way to print a buffer in > Emacs! I don't know any other HTML to PDF convertor (maybe going > via TeX), but since coral is a command line application it can > easily by used to convert the HTML output file into PDF which then > is passed to Preview. Instead of htmlize-view-buffer another > function (html2pdf-view-buffer?) would convert the HTML file with > the well-known file name to PDF ... and it could be done in /tmp > too (I think Lennart Borgman comes from MS Windows) Yes, I am planning to use /tmp and it will be a really easy hack, because I've written similar elisps for ghostscript and because it will be the same logic as pdf-preview. The problem is that coral only accepts REMOTE URLs such as http:// or https://; it does not recognize local file path (/tmp/ or file:///tmp/....). That's why I'm asking "similar" command line tools. best wishes, -- Seiji Zenitani zenit****@mac*****
