From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 issues Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:45:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4794CC37.1040600@gmail.com> References: <200801192020.m0JKKUWl017748@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801201710.m0KHAoKn021472@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <479388A9.9010600@gmail.com> <200801201755.m0KHtuDH003880@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47938D58.4010809@gmail.com> <200801201820.m0KIKxtW012230@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47939341.6010903@gmail.com> <4793A948.20903@gmail.com> <4793B2D6.9000606@gmail.com> <4794C494.5050309@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200933987 3761 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 16:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 17:46:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JGznC-0008QY-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:46:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGzmm-0001xp-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGzmj-0001ve-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGzmf-0001rp-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGzmf-0001rk-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGzmf-0006w8-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62115 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGzmc-0000ry-5C; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:46:02 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080120-1, 2008-01-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JGzmc-0000ry-5C. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JGzmc-0000ry-5C 7356cc1c2a57ad25751dc1558bb6d80a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87222 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Yes, that is good and it is also now mentioned in the manual: >> (info "(emacs) Windows Printing") >> The problem is that it requires an external program that not everyone has. > > I understand that some people choose not to install Ghostscript, but are > there cases where they *couldn't* install it? > I think we should more actively encourage the use of Ghostscript > under Windows. E.g. we may want to provide a link to an appropriate > web-page. And advertize the fact that it would allow them to print to > PDF as well from any application as well (anything that can undermine > Adobe is good in my book). I think there might have been some problem with Ghostscript license before. Is that perhaps solved now? Or does not that license matter?