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

[Carsten Dominik]

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