From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 issues Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <4794CC37.1040600@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200937681 17477 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 17:48:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 18:48:19 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 1JH0kp-00061C-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:48:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0kP-0001Dl-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0k4-00016Y-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0k2-00015p-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0k2-00015m-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JH0k2-0005xb-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:26 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAChplEfO+IHadGdsb2JhbACQGgEwmj5+ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,227,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="13002807" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2008 12:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.129.218]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id BSQ18724; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DD46C7F8C; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:47:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4794CC37.1040600@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:45:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: 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:87224 Archived-At: >>> 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? There used to be an issue where the latest&greatest was not distributed under a Free Software license. That didn't prevent the use of Ghostscript under Windows, AFAIK (you could either use the latest&greatest and accept a reduction of your Karma score, or use the (slightly older) GPL'd version). In any case, it seems that this problem doesn't exist any more since www.ghostscript.com says "The leading edge of Ghostscript development is now under GPL license, as is the latest release, Ghostscript 8.60." Their "news" page says that they announced the switch to GPL around June 2006. Stefan