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Windows Printing
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Windows Printing |
Date: |
Fri, 19 May 2006 00:20:08 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
It is now much easier to find documentation in Info about using Emacs on
MS Windows (w32). That is very nice and I hope that will attract w32
users. However when looking at this I saw a problem with the information
in "(emacs) Windows Printing".
Eli and I (with a lot of others involved) had a very long discussion
about this on the help-gnu-emacs mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2006-01/msg00242.html
I think the tests I did clearly showed that everything does not work as
the node above says. My conclusion was that the state of the printer is
not reset when accessed in the way Emacs does it on w32. Getting the
printer port is done in a standard way (I mean according to MS
documentation) but sending the data is not supposed to be done as Emacs
does it (if I understand this correctly, see the thread).
As it stands now I expect a lot of people to get into trouble when
trying to print. There are two reliable ways to print on w32 that I am
aware of (other ways has failed to me on most networked printers I have
tried):
- Use Ghostscript/GSview
- Use something like htmlize.el + the web browser. (There is an
alternative to htmlize.el but I have not tested that.)
What should we do about this node?
- Windows Printing,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Windows Printing, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/19
- Re: Windows Printing, Jason Rumney, 2006/05/19
- Re: Windows Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2006/05/19
- Re: Windows Printing, Jason Rumney, 2006/05/19
- Re: Windows Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2006/05/19
- Re: Windows Printing, Jason Rumney, 2006/05/19