Questions tagged [rendering]
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Can I take vector (SVG) screenshots of Emacs?
The gtk-vector-screenshot program can be used to take vector screenshots of Gtk-3 applications. It seems to work by asking the application to redraw itself onto an SVG canvas.
Emacs on GNU/Linux can be built with Gtk+, but trying to use the…

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some unicode characters such as "⊆" occupy 3 lines in emacs 24.4.1 on ubuntu gnome 15.04 64bit
Not every unicode character occupies 3 lines, but '⊆', '∈', and other unicode mathematical symbols occupy 3 lines in emacs on my system.
How can I fix this rendering bug?
user8780
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Emacs is blurry on scaled Windows displays (eg. Surface)
To smooth my embedded workflow I have succombed to buying a Microsoft Surface. Like the early days of MacOS retina screens Emacs is all blurry. Does anyone know if there is any support for scaled displays in Windows? Google turns up few results, but…

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Copy text as it is rendered by Emacs
I have Emacs doing a bunch of smart things to display text for me. In particular, some text has the invisible property set, and I'm running adaptive-wrap with set. I'm wondering whether I can copy the text as…

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render image in .org file after creating its link
After I insert this link into an .org file, it looks like a link:
[[./relative_path/rock.jpg]]
Is there a convenient way to render the image?
Opening and closing Emacs renders the image, but it's not very convenient.
revert-buffer function doesn't…

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Emacs 24 Gui and Retina Display
I've got a macbook pro with a retina display and Emacs 24.5.
DocView rendering of pdf are very blurry. There is a few threads on the subjects but they deal with setting a higher resolution which didn't work for me.
I wrote on my .emacs
(setq…

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Can Emacs enriched-text be displayed by other applications, browsers?
Emacs enriched-text stores test properties like font and colours that can be quite useful (colours in build logs, RTF-like documents, etc...)
Is there any other applications capable of rendering Emacs enriched-text files. For instance is it…

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Emacs org mode WYSIWYG editing
Intro
Is it possible to replicate the following rendering of org mode blocks like in LogSeq?
I have done some research but failed to find any kind of solution that would achieve it and I have a feeling that it is impossible, yet we have LaTeX…

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Copy non-printable characters as displayed by Emacs
Very similar to this question: Copy text as it is rendered by Emacs but what I need is to coy the ^M, ^E and so on characters as they are displayed. (Otherwise the text in clipboard gets truncated).

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Techniques for rendering rotated text in emacs?
What techniques exist to render rotated text in emacs? By this I mean physical rotation of text by an arbitrary angle and shown inline in a buffer as shown here:
(alignment of text in my sample is not significant)
Inserting an SVG image containing…

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Does emacs use ncurses to render in the terminal?
I was trying to figure out how Emacs renders so fast in the terminal, especially since I think it might have to redraw a large portion (or all the terminal) most of the time. But I haven't yet dug into the code, but I did compile v25 from source. …

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Programmatically check whether a unicode character will render as tofu
Is there a way to programmatically determine whether a given unicode character will render as tofu in some context in Emacs?
Some bug-flavored (U+1F41B) tofu renders in a face using DejaVu Sans Mono:

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How can I hide formatting marks after the formatting they define has been applied in markdown mode?
I am using markdown mode with the modifications suggested in the excellent answer I received to a previous question. My aim is to have basic rendering capabilities within emacs itself so I can structure and format my text documents. I now would like…

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How to export the current buffer with it's syntax highlighting to a WYSIWYG output?
I would like to use emacs to "render" text to an output file.
Is there a way to export the buffer with all font-locking to a file?
(The exact format may not matter HTML or terminal-escaped colors would both be fine).
Some options I'm aware of but…

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What are these underlines shown for whitespace at the end of some lines?
The following screenshot shows Emacs 26.3 (GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.14) of 2020-03-26, modified by Debian) editing a Markdown file:
Note that on some lines of the code block, some of the space characters at…

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