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Re: Printing
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Printing |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:56:27 +0200 |
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Writing a pdf-file would of course allow printing on w32 more simple
>>>> too - if you install some software to read and print pdf.
>>> Considering that I'd rather not encourage people to install proprietary
>>> software, is it really significantly easier to install support for
>>> printing PDF than support for printing Postscript (in Windows)?
>> Yes, I think so since most people already have a viewer for PDF
>> installed. And that viewer can be used to print.
>
> AFAIK, Windows comes neither with a Postscript viewer/printer nor with
> a PDF viewer/printer. So for ps-print.el we have to ask people to
> install Ghostscript on such systems. Assuming we had pdf-print.el,
> which other software would we tell people to install? As mentioned
> non-proprietary options are unacceptable.
>
> This said, maybe ps-print.el could be changed so it can run `gs'
> directly (under Windows); this would mean that the user only needs to
> install Ghostscript without configuring something like redmon and
> creating a special postscript virtual printer.
An easy way would perhaps be to write a temporary pdf-file and then
call w32-shell-execute on that file with "print" as the operation.
- Re: Printing, (continued)
- Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Samuel Bronson, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Reiner Steib, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/03
- Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/03
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/03
- Re: Printing, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/04/03
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/04
- Re: Printing, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/04
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/04
- Re: Printing, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/04