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Re: postscript printing in emacs
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Rami A |
Subject: |
Re: postscript printing in emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:58:30 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
Hi again Pete,
Thanks for your response.
I am honestly not so proficient in emacs nor lisp.
I simply want the same format that
mp -l -s "\!*" <\!* | lp
produces when used on the command line integrated from within emacs.
I tried this:
(setq ps-lpr-command "mp")
(setq ps-lpr-switches '("-l" " -s" " | lp"))
which also did not work.
It is not that I want to use the pipe "| lp" but I just want to duplicate the
same functionality to print the same kind of format.
On Friday, June 21, 2013 12:13:46 PM UTC-7, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 21.06.2013 um 18:30 schrieb Rami A:
>
>
>
> > But when trying to print I get this message:
>
> > Searching for program: No such file or directory, mp | lp
>
> >
>
> > It is possible that ps-lpr-command expects the path of the printing
> > program, not a command.
>
>
>
> The documentation says:
>
>
>
> Documentation:
>
> Name of program for printing a PostScript file.
>
>
>
> On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, if the value is an empty string then
> Emacs
>
> will write directly to the printer port named by `ps-printer-name'. The
>
> programs `print' and `nprint' (the standard print programs on Windows
> NT and
>
> Novell Netware respectively) are handled specially, using
> `ps-printer-name' as
>
> the destination for output; any other program is treated like `lpr'
> except that
>
> an explicit filename is given as the last argument.
>
>
>
> This is in accordance with the variable's name. It appears in ps-print.el.
> Here is written in a comment:
>
>
>
> `ps-lpr-command' must name a program that does not format the files it
> prints.
>
>
>
> Because the ps-print and ps-spool commands already produce PostScript. So you
> would have to use a simple print command. But lpr-command either does not
> allow to use a pipe. GNU Emacs seems to search for an executable file name
> with SPACEs and VERTICAL BAR (|). AFAIR mp allows to specify with -D or -P a
> printer queue to which its output is being sent. Why can't you use mp without
> ' | lpr'? And why aren't you experimenting in GNU Emacs with its own
> customisation interface? It allows to apply new settings just for this
> session – and to revert them! If a combination of settings finally works well
> you can save them, from each of the open *customisation* buffers, into your
> init file.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Greetings
>
>
>
> Pete
>
>
>
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>
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