Printing code in color to color printer?

atreyu

Hey,

Someone once showed me a simple command line way to print a file of code (Perl, Bash, etc.) on a color printer that honored the syntax highlighting. I have since forgotten it - anyone know what this might have been?

thx

marc

atreyu wrote:

Hey,

Someone once showed me a simple command line way to print a file of code (Perl, Bash, etc.) on a color printer that honored the syntax highlighting. I have since forgotten it - anyone know what this might have been?

thx

If you pipe the coloured text to the printer it should work...

Or did you mean something like "fileutil"?

Regards

atreyu

i just gave up and used gedit - never used fileutil tho. if i get time...

EDIT: or, it can be done right in vim, i've just learned. cool. this is one of several ways to do it w/vim that worked for me:

vim -me -e -c ":hardcopy >%.ps" -c ":q" test.sh
lp -d COLOR_PRINTER_NAME test.sh.ps

more at http://aplawrence.com/Girish/vim-tips.html for anyone interested...