Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF
Easiest way for me: Just print into a file. The result is a pdf-file.
However, do not know, if your printer driver can do this, but I suppose, most
printer drivers are able to it.
Best
Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2025, 11:32:09 CET schrieb Loris Bennett:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email.
> I want to convert this email to a PDF file.
>
> If I save the mail to a file I get:
>
> $ file einladung.txt
> einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text
>
> I have tried the following approaches to converting to PDF:
>
> 1. a2ps + ps2pdf
>
> This fails because a2ps seemingly can't handle UTF-8.
>
> 2. pandoc
>
> pandoc --wrap=none -o einladung.pdf einladung.txt
>
> This works and preserves the non-ASCII characters, but the headers of
> the email are compressed into a single paragraph, rather than being
> preserved as individual lines.
>
> Does anyone have a better suggestion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> PS I am aware that I can probably print the buffer directly from Emacs,
> but that also seems fiddly to set up and I'll maybe ask about that in an
> Emacs context.
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