I wrote pdf-print.el and would like to donate it to emacs. To whom do I send the file and what is the formality for transferring rights?
I wrote it to do ps-print and pipe it through ps2pdf directly to lpr. My version does direct printing only. I never use the conversion to file so I didn't do that part. I documented that it is missing. My file should work on all computers, I use it on the Mac. Rich > On Dec 24, 2024, at 09:35, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenst...@turtle-trading.net> >> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org >> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:40:11 +0200 >> >> Angelo Graziosi writes: >>> Thanks Benjamin! It seems this is a consequence of the fact that we >>> are using PostScript. >> >> Actually, PDF is mostly a binary version of PostScript output. A kind >> of a vector graphics format. So PDF is very closely tied to PostScript >> and PDF has some of the same constraints. The main difference is that >> PDF also has the ability to incorporate fonts into the file (after some >> conversion). >> >>> With Kate, for example, I can select 'Print' and than 'Microsoft print >>> to PDF' and this produces a PDF with the font used by Kate. >> >> On Windows, the Windows printer driver does all the heavy (very heavy!) >> lifting. Emacs does not want to do that, because those kind of drivers >> do not exist on Linux, BSD etc. The printing architecture there is >> constructed differently. >> >> Again there are most likely external tools that can even be called from >> Emacs to just do this. > > Here's one: > > https://www.lerup.com/printfile/descr.html > > I'm its happy user for many years and several Windows versions.
