From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Printing
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:24:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hc176sly.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: db65a1cd0904020655s6aaaf1f3qa6cda13f7ba30c38@mail.gmail.com
Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> writes:
>>> is it really significantly easier to install support for printing PDF
>>> than support for printing Postscript (in Windows)?
>>
>> AFAIK, restricting ourselves to Free software, no.
>
> If we were doing that, we wouldn't be in that mess in the first place
> -- we'd not be using Windows!
IIRC, it is a policy of the FSF to discourage using propietary software
for any purpose, even less to require it for adding capabilities to a
Free software package.
> Installing Adobe Reader is surely easier than figuring out how to get
> ghostscript set up on windows, no?
Driving Adobe Reader from an external application (or from the command
line) for printing is tricky: it relies on undocumented features that
changes with each version. OTOH, starting it for document viewing is
easy (although sometimes refuses to work). For printing purposes,
waiting for the pdf reader to start, then printing from it, is an
annoyance if you need to print often.
--
Oscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-28 10:31 Printing Андрей Парамонов
2009-03-28 14:56 ` Printing Jan Djärv
2009-03-31 2:13 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-02 9:39 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04 2:44 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04 6:54 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 7:25 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04 9:40 ` Printing Leo
2009-04-04 22:00 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-04-05 1:07 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-06 8:03 ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-06 8:45 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-06 11:47 ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-06 23:47 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-07 1:01 ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-07 1:14 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-08 1:19 ` Future of display engine [Re: Printing] Kenichi Handa
2009-04-08 1:53 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-07 9:46 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-08 1:33 ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-05-01 23:30 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-19 10:21 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-05 3:06 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 3:38 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-07 11:25 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-08 1:04 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-08 1:25 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-08 2:15 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-08 10:59 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-09 14:50 ` Printing Jason Rumney
2012-05-09 14:58 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-07 12:46 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 13:07 ` Printing joakim
2012-05-07 17:20 ` Printing Simon Leinen
2012-05-08 1:11 ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-03-28 15:46 ` Printing Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-28 18:37 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-28 20:52 ` Printing Андрей Парамонов
2009-03-30 13:06 ` Printing Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-30 15:24 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-30 18:38 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-31 1:56 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-31 3:15 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 0:52 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01 3:14 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 4:17 ` Printing Miles Bader
2009-04-01 17:53 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 4:24 ` Printing Jason Rumney
2009-04-01 17:56 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 8:11 ` Printing Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-01 14:36 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01 18:16 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 23:42 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 13:02 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-04-02 19:37 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-02 10:08 ` Printing tomas
2009-04-02 10:52 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 11:51 ` Printing tomas
2009-04-02 11:49 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 13:37 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 13:47 ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-04-02 13:55 ` Printing Samuel Bronson
2009-04-02 14:24 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2009-04-02 14:34 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 14:00 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 16:15 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 16:47 ` Printing Reiner Steib
2009-04-02 19:44 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-03 0:43 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 20:56 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 0:00 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 0:36 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-04 0:45 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 1:05 ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-04-04 6:52 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 8:57 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-04 9:22 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04 9:49 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-28 20:30 ` Printing James Cloos
2009-03-29 2:15 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-29 3:20 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 1:17 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-30 3:10 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 6:36 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 18:41 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 19:04 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 20:48 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 20:53 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 20:59 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 21:27 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-31 3:19 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 21:46 ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-03-30 21:50 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-31 3:18 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-31 19:14 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-30 18:03 ` Printing Андрей Парамонов
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-01 17:22 Printing grischka
2009-04-01 18:55 ` Printing David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-01 18:58 ` Printing David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-01 20:51 ` Printing grischka
2009-04-01 21:19 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 0:09 ` Printing David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-01 23:32 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 2:33 ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02 3:05 ` Printing Samuel Bronson
2009-04-02 13:41 ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02 13:31 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 18:39 ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02 18:53 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
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