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: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238266233 18787 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2009 18:50:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?0JDQvdC00YDQtdC5INCf0LDRgNCw0LzQvtC90L7Qsg==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 19:51:51 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 1LndbX-0000Pm-MM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LndaA-0004Hj-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LndPZ-0000xb-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LndPV-0000qz-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33725 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LndPV-0000qC-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:46713 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LndPV-0007ch-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:37 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqYEAOgLzklFxIfy/2dsb2JhbACBUcosg3oGhHc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,438,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35857751" Original-Received: from 69-196-135-242.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.135.242]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 28 Mar 2009 14:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 373CF8682; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:37:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?ItCQ0L3QtNGA0LXQuSDQn9Cw0YDQsNC80L7QvdC+0LIiJ3M=?= message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:31:05 +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:109895 Archived-At: > 2) M-x ps-print-buffer-faces; the buffer is printed, but every > non-Latin character is replaced with '?'. Yes, this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. > b) Use standard GTK+ printing facilities as GEdit and many other > applications do. 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. This is a lot more difficult than it sounds: Emacs uses Gtk is very non-essential ways (i.e. only for the scrollbars, toolbars, and menubars, but not for the actual text). It might be a good idea to try and do a real Gtk port of Emacs, tho. Stefan