Re: VimDiff printing - close but no cigar

Ben,


On 2012-10-11 02:51, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:51:09 AM UTC-5, Philip Rhoades
> wrote:
>> People,
>>
>>
>> I love Vim and VimDiff is perfect for nearly all my diff needs -
>> however I need a script/method now that will produce a PS or PDF
>> file
>> from the vimdiff comparison. I tried printing to Cups-PDF but of
>> course
>> I just get the individual files printed - not what I am seeing on
>> the
>> screen . . is there a way to print the nice screen stuff? For some
>> comparisons a screen capture would work but that is clumsy and does
>> not
>> cover the situation when the comparison is more than one screen of
>> stuff.
>>
>>
>
> Recent version of TOhtml will convert a side-by-side diff into HTML
> as you would expect. You can event tell it to use javascript to allow
> showing/hiding context. See :help :TOhtml.
>
> Probably you can then print the resulting HTML file to get your final
> desired result.


The problem is that the files contain long lines - after the HTML
conversion, the long lines in the browser are viewable by using the
scroll bars at the bottom of each panel but when printed, the lines are
truncated ie only the stuff on the screen with the scroll bars at hard
left are printed.

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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