Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net>]

Another alternative I just found recently is to use the program
gsprint, which is included in the ghostview program you can find here:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

I have these settings, which pop up a standard windows print dialog
from which I can select the printer and print.

;;;===================================================
;; use the ghostscript printer program to open a standard printer
;; dialog, works like a charm!!
(setq-default ps-lpr-command (concat UTILS_DIR "/gs/gsview/gsprint.exe"))
(setq-default ps-printer-name t)
(setq-default ps-printer-name-option nil)
(setq ps-lpr-switches '("-query")) ; show printer dialog

- Chris


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:49:40 -0500
>> From: BRUCE INGALLS <bruce.ingalls@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Windows version 2000 and higher, are bundled with VBScript & JScript, by
>> default.
>> I had posted code to gnu.emacs.sources, in Sept. 2005, a way to retrieve the
>> default printer port into Emacs:
>> 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.sources/browse_thread/thread/a9f1a308223bc3b9/e2cf485072e3164b#e2cf485072e3164b
>> 
>> You can easily query all manner of Windows printer properties,
>> and customize the code above, to bring such into Emacs.
>
> Thanks.  The question is, will this script find usable ports on
> systems where people report they cannot find a port name that Emacs
> can use?
>
>> Htmlview & notepad make fine stop-gap measures, to make w32 emacs printing
>> easier.
>> However, I don't believe there has been a good explanation, as to why some
>> zealously believe that printing must be embedded in, or dedicated to, Emacs.
>
> What would be the alternative on Windows, given that an lpr-like
> program is not always available?
>
>> That said, yet another hack is available: there already is code to export
>> emacs buffers to PDF.
>
> Can we have the URL, please?
>
>> I don't know, if a command-line pdf printing program exists.
>
> If it did (or does) exist, it could be also used to print plain text.
>
>

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