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: Printing Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <87ljqnkvn9.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238464639 13662 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2009 01:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael@elehack.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 03:58:37 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 1LoTFM-0005HC-G9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:58:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoTDz-0005eb-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoTDo-0005V9-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoTDj-0005Pz-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53743 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoTDj-0005Ps-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:26177 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoTDh-0006Uj-GR; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:53 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4EANMU0UlFxIfy/2dsb2JhbACBUskDg3oGhHc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,449,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35964777" Original-Received: from 69-196-135-242.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.135.242]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2009 21:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D254980FA; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:38:57 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:109933 Archived-At: >> The second problem is less important to the extent that it only affects >> proprietary operating systems, AFAIK, and it can be solved by installing >> additional Free Software (mostly Ghostscript). > The second problem is simply irrelevant: if the printer supports > PostScript, the OS is not important, because all modern OSs support > PostScript printers. By "the system" I mean "the hardware & OS on which Emacs runs". For Emacs to be able to print, the system (either the printer or some part of the software) needs to support Postscript. Printers that don't understand Postscript are still pretty common, AFAIK. And Windows doesn't provide Postscript support for non-Postscript printers unless you install ghostscript. So it's not irrelevant. Stefan