Export syntax-highlighted pdf files from vim

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If you want to export from vim to a pdf file with syntax highlighting, hardcopy does not seem to use the correct syntax highlighting file. Or rather, it uses GUI settings, which means that unless your syntax highlighting file takes care of looking good on gvim, it will not give you a good result. For you to get syntax highlighting at all, you must first :set term=xterm-256color-italic even if it is already set. Do it even if :set term returns xterm-256color-italic. Then, to actually get terminal colours, use :TOhtml, which converts the file into an html page, which you can then print from your browser. For a good print colorscheme, run :colorscheme print, which is is a custom light-background colorscheme I made for printing. Do this before running :TOhtml, obviously.

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