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 15:47:45 +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 1238680113 25038 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2009 13:48:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:48:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 15:49:52 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 1LpNIU-0006DZ-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:49:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNH6-0004MM-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNH1-0004Jb-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNGw-0004Aq-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59866 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNGw-0004AX-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33827 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 1LpNGw-000346-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LpNGu-0005wY-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:47:56 +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 13:47:56 +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 13:47:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:L5rNTxVsXelX6PKARnfTNZQR1G0= 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:110004 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Writing a pdf-file would of course allow printing on w32 more simple >> too - if you install some software to read and print pdf. > > Considering that I'd rather not encourage people to install proprietary > software, Ghostscript/GSView can display (and print) pdf. It is possible to install other Free pdf viewers on Windows such as the ones created for KDE, but not easy. > 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. -- Oscar