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Re: Printing
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Printing |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:56:35 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:24:41 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
> The problem is that the way Emacs renders text, even in GUI toolkits, is
> based more on the way text is rendered on tty devices than on the
> standard way of rendering text in the GUI toolkit. That does make it
> somewhat harder to teach Emacs to render to a printer than it is for
> other native GTK, NS or Windows apps.
Perhaps we could use some third-party library that does the hard
work.
> FWIW, I agree that printing would be better done that way, but given the
> complications of understanding and modifying the existing redisplay
> code, it will probably be another 10 years before it is
ps-mule was introduced 10 years ago, and we are still basically in the
same place as far as non-ASCII printing is concerned. So obviously
it's not like ps-print is going to get better in that area tomorrow.