Beautiful paper prints with Emacs

Question

Is it possible to get beautiful prints in GNU Emacs? By default using M-x print-buffer the output looks ugly, with big fonts and no margin.

For source code it would be nice to get a pretty font, syntax highlighting, a header and line numbering.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '09 at 08:25

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I would suggest using M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces, it looks much nicer.

answered Sep 25 '09 at 08:25

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This is what I usually do from emacs, but `enscript` provided tons of flexibility if you find this to be deficient in some way. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Sep 25 '09 at 15:14

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 18 '11 at 08:40

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Download a2ps; it does what you're looking for.

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edited Aug 18 '11 at 08:40

Gaff

answered Sep 25 '09 at 08:03

Mark Harrison

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 25 '09 at 08:17

The two most interesting options on there are:

Printing with the Web Browser - Emacs produces some nicely formatted HTML from your code and you print that from your browser
Printing with Word

I have to admit I haven't tried either.

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 25 '09 at 15:13

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Similar in spirit to a2ps. My link is to the GNU version, but I think that Adobe provided the original.

answered Sep 25 '09 at 15:13

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