Converting Blusfish syntax-highlighted PHP code in to a PDF
Gabriel Dragffy
dragffy at yandex.ru
Thu Apr 12 16:52:15 UTC 2007
Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> I have to say that ultimately a PDF is much more useful to me than PS.
>>
>> Going the VIM route seems good. Can it go straight in to PDF though?
>
>> Also the files that I edit are stored remotely, and I edit them in
>> Bluefish via GnomeVFS (samba shares). If I put the VIM command in to
>> bluefish is it going to handle this OK?
>
> I usually use ghostscript's "ps2pdf" for converting ps-files to pdf.
> So in Bluefish this is
>
> vim "+ha >%s.ps" +q '%s' 2>/dev/null && ps2pdf %s.ps
>
> which first creates a ps-file, then converts it to pdf.
>
> I'm not sure which kind of filenames need to be protected like '%s',
> there's probably a more compatible approach than mine. About samba,
> I've no idea, but I don't see why it shouldn't work.
>
> Cheers,
> n.
>
I have tried many times: vim "+ha >%s.ps" +q '%s' 2>/dev/null
I can't seem to make a PS file, I don't know where it would output it
anyway. I tried on both local and VFS, with no luck. Not sure what I am
doing wrong :/
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