From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:11:17 +0100 Message-ID: <43A40E75.100@student.lu.se> References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A1B787.9040001@student.lu.se> <43A27ACF.1040705@student.lu.se> <43A2D4E8.7090306@student.lu.se> <43A37B01.6080603@student.lu.se> <43A3DF96.2040303@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134829002 967 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 14:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 15:16:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Encqk-0005HG-4W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Encq0-0004or-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnbrF-0002Yo-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnbrA-0002Xs-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Enbr9-0002XD-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Enbtj-0000uL-Ln; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:14:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A178700008EE8A; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:11:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <43A3DF96.2040303@student.lu.se> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32019 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > If anyone want to write the piece of code that is required for using > the Windows printing interface from within Emacs that would very nice. > That would be the right solution in my opinion. (As far as I know this > will always bring up a box from the Windows printing interface asking > for some options for printing. But I am not sure.) I think I have better give some importants remark more about this: Such a solution would only suffice for simple printing of what is on screen. (Which is what htmlize-view.el can do with the help of a web browser.) For more complex printing ps-print.el and printing.el is used. They do not produce a buffer in Emacs that looks like the printouts. So to make the above solution really useful that have to be worked on too. Some of the basic support for this (using different fonts and font sizes) are in CVS Emacs today, but I do not know if all that is needed is there. And I have no idea if such a solution would be welcome into Emacs either. The goal is that Emacs should be as platform independent as possible, but the main target is GNU/Linux. I no nothing about printing in GNU/Linux so I do not know if those pieces above have any meaning there.