From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:38:57 +0300 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <87ljqnkvn9.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238439603 3688 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2009 19:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael@elehack.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 21:01:20 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 1LoMjW-00010m-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:01:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoMi8-0003Rk-VT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoMPw-0004oc-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoMPv-0004nr-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46662 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoMPv-0004nn-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:47031) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoMPu-0006HX-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KHC00D0014NP800@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:40:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.3.64]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KHC002KL189LC90@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:40:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:109922 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:24:35 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 1 - Printing non-ascii chars is poorly supported. > 2 - Printing on systems that do not support Postscript. > > The second problem is less important to the extent that it only affects > proprietary operating systems, AFAIK, and it can be solved by installing > additional Free Software (mostly Ghostscript). The second problem is simply irrelevant: if the printer supports PostScript, the OS is not important, because all modern OSs support PostScript printers. IOW, there's no such thing as a ``system that doesn't support PostScript''.