Re: How to print only one page of a file?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 > Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 >>Excuse such a basic question:
 >>is it possible, and how?, when printing a file,
 >>to tell Emacs to print just a desired page?
 >>I searched all over the Gnu Emacs Manual but didn't find any answer.
 >
 > Kevin Rodgers wrote:
 >
 >>C-x n p		; narrow-to-page
 >>C-x h		; mark-whole-buffer
 >>M-x lpr-buffer	; or print-buffer, ps-print-buffer,
 >>ps-print-buffer-with-faces
 >>C-x n w		; widen
 >
 > Thanks, Kevin:
 > the only problem is that in the buffer I can't scroll
 > the page I want to print because when I scroll point moves
 > and so the page itself goes on changing. Any hint about this?

narrow-to-page has nothing to do with what is displayed; see the
page-delimiter variable.

 > An alternative way is to perform a posctscript print preview
 > (from the file menu) and then print the desired page from the
 > .ps file.

Well, there you go.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers