Re: strange "feature"

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:20:16 -0400
> From: danny <danny@Wes.ec.rr.com>
> 
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:58:27PM +0200, immanuel litzroth wrote:
> > Opening a pdf file in emacs works really well. If you then try to
> > print it it will happily
> > print out a gazilion of text pages -- the pdf code. This behaviour
> > seems strange in that is
> > is almost certainly not what the user wants (he can
> > find-file-literally and print that).
> > I'm on emacs 23.3.1.
> > Is there a way to print the pdf directly from emacs (as a pdf)?
> > Immanuel
> > 
> I've had issues with this "feature" as well, they keep me from printing most things in emacs. Does anyone at least know of a fix for this?(I think it's to do with docview not actually overriding the default print function)

If this is on MS-Windows, you should be able to print a PDF file with
this Lisp one-liner:

  (w32-shell-execute "print" "/path/to/file.pdf")

This will work assuming that you have some program installed that can
display and print PDF files, and that this program is associated with
the .PDF extension.