From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:50:52 +0100 Message-ID: <43A9DC4C.5070501@student.lu.se> 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> <43A433CA.4020008@student.lu.se> <43A48239.3020809@student.lu.se> <9e36f6ab209c32ce682f75b3a86ccab0@Web.DE> <43A99BD0.7060004@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135205518 6007 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 22:51:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 23:51:53 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpCoJ-0003Kl-4t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:51:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpCpH-0004Mh-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpCoa-0004B6-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpCoV-0004AE-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpCoU-0004A5-AD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:52:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpCro-0005C9-7w; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:55:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A92154000429B9; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:50:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: 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:32150 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:44 +0100 >>From: Lennart Borgman >>Cc: Emacs help >> >>The basic difference I can see that affects Emacs is the input >>format to the printing interfaces. On MS Windows the printing >>interface wants input in the form of EMF to the printer drivers. >> >> > >That is wrong, I think: EMF is just one of the possibilities. You can >also send TEXT. > > Yes, you are right of course. I left it out because I thought it was unimportant in the context of printing from Emacs. TEXT handles only plain text and only ASCII characters. > > >>The current architechture for printing in Emacs looks like it is well >>suited for CUPS but not that well for EMF. >> >>Does the above look correct to you, Peter? >> >> > >It doesn't look correct to me. > > What do you mean? Can you explain what you believe is wrong?