Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

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.