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: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:21:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A8842E.5090204@student.lu.se> <43A908F9.1070304@student.lu.se> <43A9B6D5.9010205@student.lu.se> <43A9DBB8.3010204@student.lu.se> <43AA5D94.8000602@student.lu.se> <43AB10BE.1040104@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135326307 21071 80.91.229.2 (23 Dec 2005 08:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 23 09:25:06 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 1EpiEa-0000dc-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:25:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpiFc-0002mp-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpiDM-00024d-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpiDE-000211-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpiCq-0001r1-3e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpiC6-0004oR-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HIR30921; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:21:50 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-58-219.inter.net.il [80.230.58.219]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CGU97050 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:21:46 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <43AB10BE.1040104@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:46:54 +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:32182 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:46:54 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Does not the spooler also handle RAW data? Yes, I think it does. > This kind of data would come in at the second step The text translated to printer commands (i.e. RAW) comes back to the spooler, so I think the spooler must know how to handle it. > We are talking about two problems. I wanted it to be very clear that > there are only two options that we are aware of now to get color printing: > > 1) Using the externa program Ghostscript > 2) Using the elisp file htmlize-view.el (or something similar) 3) Use a PostScript printer. > I would like to solve that too if we can. At the moment I am out of > ideas. Not totally of course (see above), but I do not know what to test > further. Can you try ``connecting'' that printer to LPT1 or a similar port? Click Start->Settings->Printers and Faxes, then right-click on the printer's name, select Properties, and click on the Ports tab. Find a free printer port and click on its checkbox. Then see if COPY and/or Emacs can print to that port as if it were a file (in Emacs, set printer-name to that port).