Converting Blusfish syntax-highlighted PHP code in to a PDF

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Richard Mancusi wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
>>> On 4/12/07, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You can print from Bluefish - it just needs to be setup.  Following is
>>>> my strange setup - I suspect there is a better way.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Edit/Preferences/External programs
>>>>    Utilities and filters section
>>>>    Add
>>>>    (I added 3 "printers" - this is where YOU can get inventive)
>>>>    Label = Print    Command = lpr '%s'
>>>>    Label = enscript   Command = enscript -B --font=Courier8 -M letter '%s'
>>>>    Label = enscript-hdr   Command = enscript --font=Courier8 -M letter '%s'
>>> Sure, but these don't do syntax-highlighting, do they? Try
>>>
>>> Label = vim-ps   Command = vim "+ha >%s.ps" +q %s 2>/dev/null
>>>
>>> Should create a syntax-highlighted %s.ps postscript file.
>>>
>>> Problem with vim is, it uses different colors than Bluefish. For
>>> printing the original Bluefish colors you'd need to convert Bluefish
>>> syntax highlighting to vim.
>>> If there's an easier way to print with original Bluefish syntax
>>> highlighting, I'm all ears.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> n.
>>>
>>
>> In bluefish I give it the command
>> vim "+ha>~/PDF/%s.ps" +q %s 2>/dev/null
>>
>> but i can't seem to get any kind of output :( I have tried changing it
>> in all sorts of ways, but nothing seems to output a file.
>>
>> After I get this working I'm thinking I can pipe the output to
>> lp -d 'postscript-color'
>> Where hopefully I'll end up with my PDF :)
>>
> 
> I just tested the following - I don't know if it answers all your questions
> but perhaps it's a start.
> 
> 1. I named my cups pdf printer PDF_Printer (pretty unique, huh :-) )
> 2. In Bluefish I added the following
>     Label = pdf-printer    Command = lpr -PPDF_Printer '%s'
> 
> When you select pdf-printer from External/Commands it appears that
> nothing happened.  However, if you look in /home/"userlogon"/PDF
> or wherever you defaulted your cups pdf to, you will find your completed
> pdf.
> 
> hth
> -rich
> 


Right! I got that bit working. Just changed the command from lpr to lp, 
not sure what diff it makes, but i think both are equal.
Halfway there, in that I get it in PDF but there's no syntax highlighting :(
Thank you so much for your assistance!