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: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:20:35 +0300 Message-ID: References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238296978 24208 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2009 03:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cmr.pent@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 05:24:15 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 1Lnld8-0006YG-AS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lnlbk-00085X-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lnlbf-00085I-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lnlbd-000856-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40222 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lnlbc-000853-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:38959) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lnlbb-0002Ye-2W; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KH800600ZP69800@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:22:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.23.114]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KH900BVM01ODR60@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:22:37 +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:109904 Archived-At: > From: Richard M Stallman > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:15:42 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Emacs printing is broken -- and I mean it -- is *fundamentally*, > totally broken. You have either to be a PostScript guru, restrict > yourself to ASCII characters, or cheat/hack to be able to use Emacs > printing. > > I am sure that is not true. I am not a PostScript guru, but when I > use ps-print-buffer, it works fine. It works fine out of the box for ASCII and Latin-1 characters. Outside that area, ps-print needs non-trivial setup. Note that the OP said "restrict yourself to ASCII characters".