From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 5102@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, 'harven' <harven@free.fr>
Subject: bug#5102: 23.1; doc-view on a buffer not linked to a file
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:12:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx7pn304.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <113BAA608FFB4EC086F3D0A24CFC0557@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:18:07 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> No, it cannot handle non-file buffers, because ghostscript and
>> friends only handle input files and don't support piping in the
>> output.
>
> I don't mean to meddle here, and I might be way off base.
>
> But FYI, printing.el uses ghostview (gsview32.exe on Windows), which
> IIRC comes with ghostscript (gsprint.exe on Windows), in order to show
> buffer contents. You might take a look at that.
At a first glance, it looks to me that it also saves the buffer contents
to some temporary file.
Bye,
Tassilo
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2009-12-02 12:17 ` bug#5102: 23.1; doc-view on a buffer not linked to a file harven
2009-12-04 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 22:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-12-04 23:18 ` Drew Adams
2009-12-05 10:12 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2009-12-05 18:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-07 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-07 17:51 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-07 19:30 ` bug#5102: marked as done (23.1; doc-view on a buffer not linked to a file) Emacs bug Tracking System
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