From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238827971 15874 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2009 06:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 06:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 04 08:54:10 2009 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 1LpzlW-0008DC-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lpzk8-0000vS-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lpzk2-0000vM-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lpzjx-0000uM-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50074 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lpzjx-0000uJ-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:21339) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lpzjw-00068r-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f167.google.com ([209.85.218.167]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lpzjv-0007vj-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz11 with SMTP id 11so1263498bwz.42 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:52:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/8nMwrsC1l6vRTci8bDYVSzzJ+Xn9hw5XE/mFiV8MCI=; b=ZdOnzObFo5nLdcqVT11D0Qtn3HMx7ZBMdbX1wBslFThjJjofNbR1Fe99LgJbRddBXt u6b4hjLA626DMOo2wn/+P1jZrqdCU0/fXZkX9yK+q+8OCP61fLYN0CAVhSKZ128/9ISW eh/PLjWKwXeQp5QUXB6CsLdtJfhbPmDJ+Obag= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S0dv5hj33RF7Is8PwQU7gRjgx6f3xIDZH+xnZMZn3amyiAqyHU52mSxwFACSNVsQfM 6icaAEMJyFocnN8WnQg7a9nLxMo2QTDk5ZvUTBFD3v9q33PVzj4fMszFt3vg3+HANIvD GTapovfEBEBss0mtCEz4Cxpf9KtI0feEoFl7w= Original-Received: by 10.223.105.195 with SMTP id u3mr1756211fao.13.1238827944979; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:52:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110056 Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:05 AM, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > >>>> This just sends the file MY-PDF-FILE to the printer with Acrobat. >>> >>> Last I heard Acrobat is not Free. >> >> If the user has installed a free pdf-viewer then w32-shell-execute may >> work the same way as it did for me with Acrobat. That is what I >> proposed that someone with a free pdf-viewer should test. >> >> If it does not work as it should then there is a problem with the free >> pdf-viewer (which we can suggest to the developers to fix). > > Not a problem, but an unimplemented feature. > > The method you suggest sends the full document to the default printer, > no questions asked. This is not very user friendly. Hm, yes you are right, there is no print dialog. I do not know if there is another verb than "print" that can be used as argument to w32-shell-execute to get the print dialog. A free viewer can anyway implement such a new verb.