Easiest way for me: Just print into a file. The result is a pdf-file. However, do not know, if your printer driver can do this, but I suppose, most printer drivers are able to it.
Best Hans Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2025, 11:32:09 CET schrieb Loris Bennett: > Hi, > > I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. > I want to convert this email to a PDF file. > > If I save the mail to a file I get: > > $ file einladung.txt > einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text > > I have tried the following approaches to converting to PDF: > > 1. a2ps + ps2pdf > > This fails because a2ps seemingly can't handle UTF-8. > > 2. pandoc > > pandoc --wrap=none -o einladung.pdf einladung.txt > > This works and preserves the non-ASCII characters, but the headers of > the email are compressed into a single paragraph, rather than being > preserved as individual lines. > > Does anyone have a better suggestion? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > PS I am aware that I can probably print the buffer directly from Emacs, > but that also seems fiddly to set up and I'll maybe ask about that in an > Emacs context.