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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: coloration of faces in pdfs from saving an agenda buffer
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 17:14:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66CBF869-01A5-4245-8450-7F82EB58EC69@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890905142328r6592803ct6c72793e0a5177ee@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alan,

do you want colors at all in the printed version?  If not, try

(setq ps-print-color-p 'black-white)

- Carsten

On May 15, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I have posted on this problem several weeks ago: when I save an  
> agenda buffer with the brilliant C-u C-x C-w method (naming a file  
> <name>.pdf), I have not been able to produce a pdf that is readable  
> unless the foreground color is dark.  When exporting a pdf from an  
> org-mode buffer, the text is normally black.  Not in this case,  
> however.
>
> I have been pulling my hair out for quite a while about this.  I  
> have had to completely alter my coloration pattern of emacs to use  
> this facility.
>
> Can I incorporate a temporary selection of a different color-theme-*  
> or a neutral coloring scheme into the code that produces that PDF by  
> the C-u C-x C-w method?
>
> I removed all manner of coloration, to get this working at all.   
> Well, I just bought a monochrome laser printer, and even then, the  
> light colored foreground-color (like yellow) print in an illegible  
> shade of light gray.
>
> What have I been doing wrong?  Any clues?
>
> Alan Davis
>
> "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need  
> for one non-existent."                     ---Lord Raleigh (John  
> William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
>
> It is undesirable to believe a proposition when
> there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
>    ---- Bertrand Russell
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-16 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-15  6:28 coloration of faces in pdfs from saving an agenda buffer Alan E. Davis
2009-05-16 15:14 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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