need clear examples and descriptions

[tbrowder]

No description provided.

[jubilatious1]

[feature request] Enhance basic examples to show printing to PDF from Vim and/or MacVim.

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/6913/how-to-change-vims-hardcopy-printfont
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12361801/reformatting-and-printing-to-pdf-text-in-vim
https://askubuntu.com/questions/705973/how-can-i-print-from-vim-to-pdf

[tbrowder]

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 03:38 jubilatious1 ***@***.***> wrote: [feature request] Enhance basic examples to show printing to PDF from Vim and/or MacVim.

Thanks for your interest. PDF::Writer is currently broken but I am working on it.

[tbrowder]

I'm not sure what you mean. Is the issue how to get output for A4 paper? Or it doesn't work for A4 paper?

[jubilatious1]

I love Vim but printing from Vim (and/or MacVim) is atrocious. Ignores fonts and prints in monospace Courier. Looks terrible.

Any Raku one-liner I can throw at the problem would be appreciated. Or calling a Raku script from the Vim Command Line.

My preferred option is using your PDF::Writer module, outputting to a PDF file, and then opening it with a system reader like MacOS "Preview" to check for correctness, etc.

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UPDATE: Just tested the latest version of MacVim (Vim 9.0.1276 (MacVim r176)) and the :hardcopy command prints nothing. So a third-party script is the only option right now.

[jubilatious1]

macvim-dev/macvim#1390 (comment)

[tbrowder]

I am making good progress on this module's main requirement: my module PDF::Document. Until that is satisfactory, work on this module would be a waste of my time.

If you are interested, see the /dev directory in the github.com/tbrowder/PDF-Document repo where I am working now. There are several working programs testing various aspects of the PDF creation process as I see it using David Warring's github.com/pdf-raku lower-level PDF modules.