Re: Printing with emacs: Not working

[B. T. Raven]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:40:21 +0100
> > > From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >
> > > > You have to set the value of "printer-name"
> > > That does not necessarily help.
> > But does not necessarily fail, either.  No need to discourage a fellow
> > Emacs users before they even tried.
>
> I did not try to discourage. As you know there is a very simple
> solution: Use the web browser for printing. For details see the page
> on EmacsWiki I pointed to.

It's certainly much easier to get something out of Emacs and down in 
black and white (color too) using printing through the browser rather 
than through ghost-script. Virtually every w32 user has a browser but 
very many don't have ghost-script installed. I think that I once had the 
latter method working since I have lines similar to rustom's commented 
out in my .emacs. To get printing through Firefox all I had to do was 
download:

hfyview.el
htmlfontify.el

These are in my emacs/lisp directory but they could probably go in 
emacs/emacs-lisp instead, where the other piece of the puzzle, 
easymenu.el resides.

Then add to .emacs:

(require 'hfyview)

After restarting (or maybe just rereading .emacs) a new item appears in 
the File menu:

Quick Printing (Using Web Browser)

Ed