From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "cmr.Pent@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Pretty multilingual PostScript printing? Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:44:08 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3e83bbcd-ebe0-4e65-a580-7cd2c13ff872@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232690236 31225 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 05:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:57:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 06:58:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQF3k-0006Zs-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQF2T-0004bd-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:57:09 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!y1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.179.245.94 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232653449 19811 127.0.0.1 (22 Jan 2009 19:44:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.179.245.94; posting-account=gGXeuQoAAAAj0VaJ1PQ4rEKCfxef3hne User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122011 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166246 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:52:24 -0500 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:61580 Archived-At: On 22 =D1=CE=D7, 05:23, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > cmr.P...@gmail.com wrote: > > I expect Emacs to be at least as good as GEdit ;-) Is the a way to > > make Emacs use the installed *vector* fonts for PostScript printing, > > like GEdit does? > > I don't know -- how does GEdit do it? > > -- > Kevin Rodgers > Denver, Colorado, USA I've looked through the GEdit code, and it turns out that it uses standard GTK+ printing facilities. Emacs is built with GTK+ interface for quite some time now, so I suppose there should be no architectural problem in using GTK+ for printing as well. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Do you think it is feasible to implement GTK+ printing in Emacs? I believe it will deliver great user experience improvement, for many users. Andrey