From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:11:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A9B6D5.9010205@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulkyedz3d.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:49:13 +0100
>>From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>>
>>
>>>Go to this URL:
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdl_pif_dwfo.asp
>>>
>>>and then look in the section Printing Processes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Thanks, but that was on of the pages I have been reading. It is a good
>>overview to start with. I am however looking for something about where
>>in that picture something like
>>
>> c:\> copy file.txt \\host-name\queue-name
>>
>>ties in. (Or dito using LPT1 etc.)
>>
>>
>
>AFAIU, these queues are watched by the spooler, which sends the text
>to a printer processor for the designated printer. The printer
>processor converts the text into a data stream suitable for the
>printer hardware (e.g., a stream of PCL commands), and then sends that
>data stream back to the spooler. The spooler then sends the data to
>the relevant printer monitor, which actually controls the printer's
>hardware port.
>
It think I saw something like this for ASCII input only. Actually the
printer processor first calls GDI which produces EMF that is send to the
printer driver. So this can print text (only ASCII actually if I
remember correctly). That should mean that the above "copy" should work.
However I do not remember that I saw anything about exactly when this
works. Do you have an exact link where you found this? Obviously my test
fails for some printers (most of those I have tried actually) so there
must be something more.
Last time I looked into this I stopped about here because I thought it
was not worth the trouble. As far as I can see it will only handle ASCII
text when it works. I have seen very little that makes me believe that
GDI can handle PostScript and convert that to EMF in the above scenario.
Have you seen something suggesting this? (The only thing I have seen was
something that could have been that for NT4 (another print job format),
but I am not sure and it seems to be gone in later MS Windows versions.)
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2005-12-15 15:31 Printing from WindowXP version of emacs sbrown
2005-12-15 18:30 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-12-15 18:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-16 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 8:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-16 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 14:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-16 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 2:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 9:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-17 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 15:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 16:31 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-17 21:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 23:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-21 18:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-21 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-21 22:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-21 23:41 ` Edward O'Connor
2005-12-21 23:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 9:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 13:11 ` Lennart Borgman
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2005-12-18 18:22 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-18 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-19 17:53 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-19 21:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-20 1:11 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-20 4:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-20 22:40 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-21 4:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-22 23:11 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-23 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-30 0:38 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-12-30 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2006-01-05 6:53 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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2006-01-07 12:02 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2006-01-07 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-20 14:45 ` Peter Boettcher
2005-12-20 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-20 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-21 4:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-21 7:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-21 18:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-21 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-21 20:11 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-12-21 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-21 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-22 4:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-22 8:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-22 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-22 20:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-23 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-23 14:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-23 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-24 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-24 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-24 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 9:26 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-16 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 9:19 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-16 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 14:19 ` Lennart Borgman
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2005-12-19 9:58 ` Mathias Dahl
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2005-12-20 7:41 ` Mathias Dahl
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2005-12-19 21:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-19 22:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-19 23:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-19 23:30 ` Lennart Borgman
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2005-12-20 17:15 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-01-03 0:49 BRUCE INGALLS
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2006-01-03 22:08 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-03 22:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-03 13:08 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-01-03 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-04 0:34 BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-04 10:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-05 1:56 ` BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-05 13:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-05 15:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-05 21:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 21:18 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-06 11:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-04 5:10 BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-04 8:45 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-01-04 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-04 19:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-05 1:17 ` BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-05 9:24 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-01-05 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 21:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-06 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-07 5:00 BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-07 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-08 1:06 BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-08 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-09 8:29 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-01-09 11:42 ` Lennart Borgman
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