Re: w32 issues

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Perhaps the only thing we should do is
> > disable the default value of printer-name set by lpr.el.
> >   
> I've done that, which should improve things for users of SMB networked 
> printers, as well as avoiding the lockup for users who do not have a 
> printer configured on an LPT port.
> Edge cases do still exist though. Someone may have a printer configured 
> on LPT1, but it is switched off or disconnected. They will still 
> experience the lockup. Also printing to IPP networked (and I presume 
> other connections that present fake port names, like USB) printer 
> results in a file being created in C:/, perhaps we can catch this in 
> direct-print-region-function by checking if printer-name starts with 
> "IP_" or "USB", and give a warning that the user will need to use an 
> external application to print to that printer.
Would it not help to use StartDoc etc (or whatever they are called) and 
send data to the printer like in the little c program Vinicius pointed to?
> If Dhuvra finishes his helper application, we could configure that as 
> the default print application, since it will give the ability to print 
> on USB and non-SMB networked printers as well as any printers that do 
> not accept plain text over the wire.
I thought dhruva wanted to add printing to Emacs itself (using the GDI 
API:s).