Re: printing pdf of agenda buffer: two issues

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Ivan Nedrehagen <ivannedr@broadpark.no>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: printing pdf of agenda buffer: two issues
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:10:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E906052B-16A1-4C4C-90ED-85C3767B5AD7@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uqqehixtetmi9u@gorontha.conoptica.local>

On Mar 13, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Ivan Nedrehagen wrote:

> På Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:38:22 +0100, skrev Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl 
> >:
>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe I have missed something about the use of this new feature.   
>>> And also other attempts to print have failed. So I am posing two  
>>> questions in this post (hopefully related).  They may well be due  
>>> to my setup.
>>>
>>> 1.  When I attempt to write a pdf file of a buffer of TODO items  
>>> as collected by C-c a t, the following error is reported:
>>>
>>>     comment-normalize-vars: Command attempted to use minibuffer  
>>> while in minibuffer
>>>      Formatting...  0%
>>>      color-values: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("blue" :weight  
>>> bold)
>>>
>>>   There is little use in my theorizing about this.
>>
>>
>> I cannot reproduce this.  C-x C-w somefile.pdf RET in my agenda  
>> works.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2.  I have tried two other ways to print agenda output, using  
>>> scripts posted elsewhere.  One of them was a script from an org- 
>>> mode tutorial, and the other, perhaps, from the FAQ.  Both times,  
>>> I get colored text that cannot print.  It is pale yellow.
>>
>>
>> Very likel this is because you are using a script that
>> runs Emacs in batch-mode, in which case the font colors
>> are poorly defined.  You can try to bind org-agenda-with-colors
>> to nil during the agenda command, as one of the options.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps these are related?
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>
> I am running Emacs on Windows, and I have a similar problem with org- 
> mode 6.24b.
>
> My *Messages* gives me this
>
> Preparing diary...done
> Loading cl-macs...done
> Loading cl-seq...done
> Formatting...  0%
> Loading ps-mule...done
> Loading composite...done
> Collecting face information...
> Formatting... 39%
> ps-e-color-values: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("blue" :weight bold)

What is ps-e-color-values?  I do not have this function.

- Carsten

>
> Hope anyone can help. An pdf from agenda view would give a good kick  
> in the butt
> to they guys in the office who frowns upon planning done elsewhere  
> than MS Projects
> and Outlook :P
>
> - Ivan
>
>
>
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