From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:51:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A1B787.9040001@student.lu.se> <43A27ACF.1040705@student.lu.se> <43A2D4E8.7090306@student.lu.se> <43A37B01.6080603@student.lu.se> <812e3835d8e20230c7c0f656c6716dda@Web.DE> <43A433CA.4020008@student.lu.se> <43A48239.3020809@student.lu.se> <9e36f6ab209c32ce682f75b3a86ccab0@Web.DE> <43A99BD0.7060004@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135202604 29115 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 22:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 23:03:23 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpC3F-0006oP-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:03:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpC4D-0000Xk-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpC2T-0008IU-LA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBz1-0006Mq-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBsb-0003Mu-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpBvy-00022h-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-4-218.inter.net.il [80.230.4.218]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CGP00899 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:51:10 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <43A99BD0.7060004@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:44 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32146 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:44 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > Cc: Emacs help > > The basic difference I can see that affects Emacs is the input > format to the printing interfaces. On MS Windows the printing > interface wants input in the form of EMF to the printer drivers. That is wrong, I think: EMF is just one of the possibilities. You can also send TEXT. > The current architechture for printing in Emacs looks like it is well > suited for CUPS but not that well for EMF. > > Does the above look correct to you, Peter? It doesn't look correct to me.