Re: [Orgmode] printing pdf of agenda buffer: two issues

[Ivan Nedrehagen]

På Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:10:30 +0100, skrev Carsten Dominik  
<address@hidden>:

> On Mar 13, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Ivan Nedrehagen wrote:
>
> > På Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:38:22 +0100, skrev Carsten Dominik  
> > <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe I have missed something about the use of this new feature.  And  
> > > > also other attempts to print have failed. So I am posing two  
> > > > questions in this post (hopefully related).  They may well be due to  
> > > > my setup.
> > > >
> > > > 1.  When I attempt to write a pdf file of a buffer of TODO items as  
> > > > collected by C-c a t, the following error is reported:
> > > >
> > > >     comment-normalize-vars: Command attempted to use minibuffer while  
> > > > in minibuffer
> > > >      Formatting...  0%
> > > >      color-values: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("blue" :weight bold)
> > > >
> > > >   There is little use in my theorizing about this.
> > >
> > >
> > > I cannot reproduce this.  C-x C-w somefile.pdf RET in my agenda works.
> > >
> > > > 2.  I have tried two other ways to print agenda output, using scripts  
> > > > posted elsewhere.  One of them was a script from an org-mode  
> > > > tutorial, and the other, perhaps, from the FAQ.  Both times, I get  
> > > > colored text that cannot print.  It is pale yellow.
> > >
> > >
> > > Very likel this is because you are using a script that
> > > runs Emacs in batch-mode, in which case the font colors
> > > are poorly defined.  You can try to bind org-agenda-with-colors
> > > to nil during the agenda command, as one of the options.
> > >
> > > > Perhaps these are related?
> > >
> > > I don't think so.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > - Carsten
> >
> > I am running Emacs on Windows, and I have a similar problem with org- 
> > mode 6.24b.
> >
> > My *Messages* gives me this
> >
> > Preparing diary...done
> > Loading cl-macs...done
> > Loading cl-seq...done
> > Formatting...  0%
> > Loading ps-mule...done
> > Loading composite...done
> > Collecting face information...
> > Formatting... 39%
> > ps-e-color-values: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("blue" :weight bold)
>
> What is ps-e-color-values?  I do not have this function.
>
> - Carsten
>
> > Hope anyone can help. An pdf from agenda view would give a good kick in  
> > the butt
> > to they guys in the office who frowns upon planning done elsewhere than  
> > MS Projects
> > and Outlook :P
> >
> > - Ivan
> >
> >
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It is a defalias for 'color-value used in ps-print.el
Somehow, while searching for the values, I somehow made the error go away,
Ill get back to it if I am able to reproduce.

- Ivan