From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing with emacs: Not working Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:31:08 -0600 Message-ID: <-sqdnZ77OKfLvjXUnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> References: <8dcb3b6f-ddbb-412a-a051-dd1624d960b2@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <873ae0l938.fsf@bornier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235756515 4998 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 17:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:41:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 18:43:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ld6ji-0005kw-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld6iO-0000bl-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:41:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:31:02 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 43 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.132.64 Original-X-Trace: sv3-uFn7yOf3e+6E6p0NyA4VRyVZTS8vZtJAfp/xisBCOxs5fKc4ichnS/ASz4/LLvkmiYaGS8n2L5R5fAS!fdQ+Ovtz8Yeg1G/syAc8ecrZHDkqU5ymyTVS9WYLeo14fcN+2xY1MAG7oO5tlOVTD7YD4jvnqZCc!jsl/8p0i2oAMX5+kEOE8JEOMVgTh5g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167141 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:62441 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:40:21 +0100 >>> From: Lennart Borgman >>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >>> >>>> You have to set the value of "printer-name" >>> That does not necessarily help. >> But does not necessarily fail, either. No need to discourage a fellow >> Emacs users before they even tried. > > I did not try to discourage. As you know there is a very simple > solution: Use the web browser for printing. For details see the page > on EmacsWiki I pointed to. > > It's certainly much easier to get something out of Emacs and down in black and white (color too) using printing through the browser rather than through ghost-script. Virtually every w32 user has a browser but very many don't have ghost-script installed. I think that I once had the latter method working since I have lines similar to rustom's commented out in my .emacs. To get printing through Firefox all I had to do was download: hfyview.el htmlfontify.el These are in my emacs/lisp directory but they could probably go in emacs/emacs-lisp instead, where the other piece of the puzzle, easymenu.el resides. Then add to .emacs: (require 'hfyview) After restarting (or maybe just rereading .emacs) a new item appears in the File menu: Quick Printing (Using Web Browser) Ed