From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:42:22 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <000d01c48b9c$763a5570$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <016f01c48a10$f6081090$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001801c48a37$995d27f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> <412DFF1B.9010603@ig.com.br> <16686.4094.173795.914606@tron.eng.it> <004001c48b8d$f622ec70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <412E20A5.3050407@ig.com.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093545755 21751 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 18:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , saint@eng.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 20:42:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0PCb-00032U-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:42:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0PHE-0005io-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0PH7-0005id-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0PH5-0005iE-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0PH5-0005iB-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.110] (helo=av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0PC8-0004ka-3c; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: by av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5EE1637EC0; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:41:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.178]) by av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C84237E57; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:41:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p113.telia.com [62.20.165.113]) by smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B9FC38005; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:41:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Vinicius Jose Latorre" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26532 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26532 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinicius Jose Latorre" To: "Lennart Borgman" Cc: ; "Eli Zaretskii" ; Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows > > Will the new version of Emacs detect whether the default printer is a > > PostScript printer? > > Does Word detect if the default printer is PostScript printer or you have to > set default PostScript printer in Windows? I am not sure of the details of how it is organized, but I will try to explain the principles as far as I understand them. Word (or any other program that wants to print) talks to a printer driver. This driver has specific information about the printer choosen. Whether the translation to PostScript takes place in Word or in the printer driver is not entirely clear to me. However the version of Acrobat that create the pdf document acts as a printer dirver and it has the capability to create a pdf document from any program from which you can print. This makes me believe there is some kind of meta-language for description of the printout that is translated to PostScript by the printer driver. Probably there then must be open source code for things like this in Open Office and Mozilla. - Lennart