From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:22:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <016f01c48a10$f6081090$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001801c48a37$995d27f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> <412DFF1B.9010603@ig.com.br> <16686.4094.173795.914606@tron.eng.it> <004001c48b8d$f622ec70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <412E20A5.3050407@ig.com.br> <000d01c48b9c$763a5570$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <007801c48bba$80b4d890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093598607 26783 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2004 09:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 11:23:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0cx0-0003Pk-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:23:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0d1f-00012O-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0d11-0000tm-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0d10-0000tM-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0d10-0000t9-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.151] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0cwE-0006SI-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (7.1.026.1) id 412D2C62000280F2; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:22:26 +0200 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <007801c48bba$80b4d890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:17:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26558 Hi Lennart, "Lennart Borgman" writes: > I think using colored printing the way I suggested earlier is often > good enough. The advantage it has is that it is very simple. (Of > course it is not very elegant, but it is existing.) It is also a > solution that probably can be made portable since printing a html > file is certainly a thing I guess can be done on most main operating > systems. Most OSs have no idea what HTML is. The user installs a browser of his choice (or other tools) and that handles the HTML. Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but my point is "a browser of his choice", which implies that in general there is no fixed stable interface to an HTML processing facility. On Windows you always have Internet Explorer, but a) it's printing output may not be acceptable and b) it is constantly changing with feature updates as well as security patches. Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: >> [About Ghostscript:] This could be part of the Windows installer. > I will try. Please tell me which Ghostscript to use. In the end you will have to decide for yourself. A quick look into my sources indicate that you probably want ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs814/gs814w32.exe That looks like the latest AFPL version (for non-commercial use only, but with source available), the version that is also used by GSView. In 5 minutes I can't find a simple way to get the free version as a precompiled Windows binary. You can probably just use the previous AFPL version, which should be identical to the free version, i.e. [...]/gs704/gs704w32.exe . For more information see the pages that i just checked: http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get814.htm http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/8.00/New-user.htm#Find_Ghostscript benny