Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:44 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> > Cc: Emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > The basic difference I can see that affects Emacs is the input
> > format to the printing interfaces.  On MS Windows the printing
> > interface wants input in the form of EMF to the printer drivers.
> >    
>
> That is wrong, I think: EMF is just one of the possibilities.  You can
> also send TEXT.
>  
Yes, you are right of course. I left it out because I thought it was 
unimportant in the context of printing from Emacs. TEXT handles only 
plain text and only ASCII characters.

>  
>
> > The current architechture for printing in Emacs looks like it is well 
> > suited for CUPS but not that well for EMF.
> >
> > Does the above look correct to you, Peter?
> >    
>
> It doesn't look correct to me.
>  
What do you mean? Can you explain what you believe is wrong?