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: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:05:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <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 1238807173 13609 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2009 01:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 01:06:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 04 03:07:32 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 1LpuM6-0005Zd-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:07:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpuKi-0001Zl-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpuKE-00018J-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpuKA-00013j-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33912 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpuKA-00013V-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55538 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 1LpuKA-0007Ko-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LpuK6-0003GK-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:05:26 +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 ; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:05:26 +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 ; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:05:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 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: sha1:6jFVjyNizEK9/p9mLyJlgh5pTmk= 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:110051 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: >>> This just sends the file MY-PDF-FILE to the printer with Acrobat. >> >> Last I heard Acrobat is not Free. > > If the user has installed a free pdf-viewer then w32-shell-execute may > work the same way as it did for me with Acrobat. That is what I > proposed that someone with a free pdf-viewer should test. > > If it does not work as it should then there is a problem with the free > pdf-viewer (which we can suggest to the developers to fix). Not a problem, but an unimplemented feature. The method you suggest sends the full document to the default printer, no questions asked. This is not very user friendly. -- Oscar