Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:06:43 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> >>    1) Using the externa program Ghostscript
> >>    2) Using the elisp file htmlize-view.el (or something similar)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >      3) Use a PostScript printer.
> >  
> >
> I think we agree more and more (or at least are more and more clear). I 
> do not know if this is a good advice or not, I seldom buy a printer. In 
> many environments it is of course like "choose your parents", but I am 
> sure you know that  ;-)

Many large firms install printers that support PostScript.  So 3) is
not such an absurd advice, sometimes people simply don't know that
they can use PostScript freely.

> >Can you try ``connecting'' that printer to LPT1 or a similar port?
> >Click Start->Settings->Printers and Faxes, then right-click on the
> >printer's name, select Properties, and click on the Ports tab.  Find a
> >free printer port and click on its checkbox.  Then see if COPY and/or
> >Emacs can print to that port as if it were a file (in Emacs, set
> >printer-name to that port).
> >
> Is this different from "net use" in some respect?

I don't know, it might be.