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: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:44:55 +0300 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <20090402100822.GC28589@tomas> <20090402115119.GA29256@tomas> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238701554 8203 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2009 19:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 21:47:11 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 1LpSsY-0001FK-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpSrA-0001U0-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpSql-0000zV-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LpSqh-0000up-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40511 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LpSqh-0000ua-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:52005) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LpSqh-0006yC-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KHH00N00O6I3H00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:45:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.171.54]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KHH00BK5O70UY40@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:45:01 +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:110020 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:15:23 -0400 > > AFAIK, Windows comes neither with a Postscript viewer/printer nor with > a PDF viewer/printer. True. > This said, maybe ps-print.el could be changed so it can run `gs' > directly (under Windows); this would mean that the user only needs to > install Ghostscript without configuring something like redmon and > creating a special postscript virtual printer. There's no need for these complications. Installing Ghostscript on Windows is very easy, and once installed, it can immediately be used to print with ps-print to any Windows printer; no need for redmon or virtual printers. The instructions to configure Emacs on Windows to do that are in the Emacs manual. Again, this thread was not about PostScript printing in general: setting that up is almost trivially easy (although I personally think that printouts produced by Ghostscript are ugly). The problem was with printing non-ASCII text, and that needs to be solved in ps-print and ps-mule, not in external applications.