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Re: Script to pdf

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Wu Ming <wu.ming2@icloud.com > writes:

> New to Emacs. This may be my introduction to it. 
>
> In non-interactive mode, via bash script, I would like to perform text
> replacement in a Open Document text file and then save it as PDF. As
> alternative save ODT as HTML first and then perform the other steps. 
>
> Is it possible?


File: emacs.info,  Node: PostScript,  Next: PostScript Variables,  Up: Printing

C-u ps-print-buffer-with-faces

That is Control-u followed by ps-print-buffer-with-faces. emacs will ask
the name of the file and save the current buffer as a postscript
document. going from postscript to pdf is usually not a problem. use
poppler or ghostscript.

> I have a bash script completing the process with HTML as input. But how
> LibreOffice handles the conversion from ODT is tricky. Sometimes adds
> unnecessary tags. Also saving HTML to PDF requires some tuning because, as
> far as I know, the format is not meant for paper publishing. Emacs may have
> better options. 

unfortunately on unix systems printing has been beyond difficult. I
think most people use CUPs these days. back in the day you would just
copy the postscript file to /dev/lp0, which still exists on my system.
If you need to use an HP printer then you need ghostscript.

> Thanks for sharing. 

you are welcomed.

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