From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:11:05 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <812e3835d8e20230c7c0f656c6716dda@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134827525 28597 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 13:52:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 14:52:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EncSD-0004zv-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EncSu-0000OC-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Enaw5-0007Ut-Tu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:13:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnaoJ-0006ne-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:07:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnZyi-0003kk-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ena1G-0003ho-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:14:31 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-23-124.inter.net.il [80.230.23.124]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id DES37329 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:11:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <812e3835d8e20230c7c0f656c6716dda@Web.DE> (message from Peter Dyballa on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:38:45 +0100) 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:32018 Archived-At: > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > From: Peter Dyballa > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:38:45 +0100 > > > Am 17.12.2005 um 09:20 schrieb Eli Zaretskii: > > > This interface is for browsing a URL, not for printing. What we want, > > I think, is a way to print on the default printer that doesn't require > > the user to press any more buttons or choose menu items on the Web > > browser. > > It would be nicer, if we'd had the chance to set some parameters for > printing, like two sides on one page of paper, landscape instead of > portrait The CVS version of Emacs has the printing.el package that is supposed to provide these features. But it only does that for PostScript output. It would be a good idea to extend that so that external programs such as Ghostscript would not be required. In other words, we need a platform-independent API to communicate with the system printers, and then we need to use that API in printing.el. If someone really cares about better printing facilities in Emacs, they should, IMHO, get busy adding something like that, instead of hacking up a workaround thru Explorer.