Re: [Orgmode] Export to PDF

[Jason F. McBrayer]

"Scott Jaderholm" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/18/07, Denis Bueno <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     I'm somewhat mystified that I can't seem to find support for this
>     feature in Org mode. I looked through the manual and mailing list, but
>     it seems no one has used -- or even wanted -- this feature.
>
> I completely agree that this feature would be nice. I often wish I
> could print my org files in a professional looking manner, without
> headlines getting cut off or urls and page numbers appearing at the
> top, which happens with html export, which is the easiest way to
> print from a remote shell or Emacs in Windows. Taking an agenda from
> org into a meeting would be a lot easier with a nice PDF printer. Of
> course I realize this is no easy task and so it's no mystery why it
> isn't implemented.

If we want good PDF output from org-mode, the best way is almost
certainly a good LaTeX exporter.  Producing one would be
time-consuming, but probably not all that hard, since it could start
with a straightforward port of the HTML exporter.  PDF export could
then just run the LaTeX exporter and pdflatex (or whatever other path
to pdf you prefer).  This will require an additional install on
Windows (e.g. MiKTeX), but that honestly shouldn't be a problem for
anyone running Emacs.

I would like to have this feature, and I think I could probably
implement it myself, but unfortunately I know that I don't have time
to. 

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