From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:52:53 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16686.55877.99487.627159@mail.eng.it> 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> Reply-To: saint@eng.it NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093589630 6014 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2004 06:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , Vinicius Jose Latorre , saint@eng.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 08:53:39 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 1C0acE-00032d-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0agt-0006Is-D4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0agl-0006H7-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0agk-0006GR-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0agj-0006GC-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.205.33.44] (helo=mail-relay-4.tiscali.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0abb-00018T-E0; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from cyrano (217.133.20.189) by mail-relay-4.tiscali.it (7.1.021.3) id 40F3EBEA00997C21; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:52:58 +0200 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.50.4 X-attribution: CC X-Zippy: I am having a pleasant time!! 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:26554 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26554 >>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier writes: >>> 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? SM> You don't have to tell Word what kind of printer you have: you just choose SM> the printer and that's it. You do have to tell which printer it is at some SM> point, of course, but that's done system-wide when you setup the printer. SM> As for what kind of format is used between applications and the printer's SM> driver, I have no idea. The applications, AFAIK, create a "graphic context" and then they draw on it both shapes and character gliphs. In the example I posted the gs program (from the ghostgum suite - I fear it could be non-free) was told to use that system. With some saner printer design you can send data directly to the printer (on the LPT port or to the network address/port) bypassing the driver, but dumber "I need the windows driver" printers do exist (HP do you hear me :) ?) -- /\ ___ /___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________ //--\ | | \| | Integralista GNUslamico e fancazzista \/