Thursday, August 9, 2018

Re: hardcopy makes pdf files that open only on (some?) linux PDF readers

Renato Fabbri wrote:

> (set printoptions=header:0)
> :hardcopy > something.pdf
>
> :'o(
>
> I don't have a Windows OS here to give you the names,
> but I guess Adobe and Foxit were unable to read them,
> I don't remember.
>
> Google Drive uploads and displays them correctly,
> but fails to display or give a working route to display
> them in emails.
>
> Any (semi-)standard heading missing for them in the rendered
> PDF files?

:hardcopy produces PostScript, not PDF. You need to pass it through a
tool that can do the conversion, such as "ps2pdf".

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