From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:24:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <20090402100822.GC28589@tomas> <20090402115119.GA29256@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238682321 1187 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2009 14:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:25:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 16:26:38 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 1LpNsM-0002aU-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNqy-0006Nl-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNqr-0006Mb-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNqm-0006Jb-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58917 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNql-0006JQ-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48966 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LpNql-0002hE-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNqf-0007WQ-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:54 +0000 Original-Received: from 124.red-83-38-73.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.38.73.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:53 +0000 Original-Received: from ofv by 124.red-83-38-73.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.red-83-38-73.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vhuElJW9/MfOQucrs6zhjtbf0e4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:110007 Archived-At: Samuel Bronson writes: >>> is it really significantly easier to install support for printing PDF >>> than support for printing Postscript (in Windows)? >> >> AFAIK, restricting ourselves to Free software, no. > > If we were doing that, we wouldn't be in that mess in the first place > -- we'd not be using Windows! IIRC, it is a policy of the FSF to discourage using propietary software for any purpose, even less to require it for adding capabilities to a Free software package. > Installing Adobe Reader is surely easier than figuring out how to get > ghostscript set up on windows, no? Driving Adobe Reader from an external application (or from the command line) for printing is tricky: it relies on undocumented features that changes with each version. OTOH, starting it for document viewing is easy (although sometimes refuses to work). For printing purposes, waiting for the pdf reader to start, then printing from it, is an annoyance if you need to print often. -- Oscar