Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> ANSI text means, in Windows parlance, the 8-bit codepages used in
> European locales.  Also, in some other place in MSDN they say
> explicitly that 8-bit characters are accepted, but I cannot find that
> place anymore.
>  
Thanks. Sounds like a reasonable strategi for MS.

>  
>
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/graphics/hh/graphics/provider_b941f8a9-ddb3-47ca-afa2-d06c6de2ce74.xml.asp
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Thanks. This is what I have been reading too. I am however not sure that 
> > this text means that "copy" for example are handled this way. The text 
> > describes two steps where the spooler is used. In the first step the 
> > spooler sends the job to GDI for conversion and get it back from GDI. In 
> > the second step the spooler sends the data to the printer.
> >
> > Could it not be that "copy" goes directly to the second step?
> >    
>
> No.  The steps described in the above URL all happen _after_ the text
> was sent to the spooler.  What the text does not describe is how
> writing to PRN or \\server\printer winds up in the spool area.
>  
I guess you are right, but I am not absolutely sure. Does not the 
spooler also handle RAW data? This kind of data would come in at the 
second step (or was there something more which I have forgotten at the 
moment?).

> PostScript printing to a non-PostScript printer will only work thru
> Ghostscript.
>  
Yes, it looks like that.

> Anyway, I was talking about a different issue: how to find out why
> COPY or the ways suggested for printing normal (non-color) text from
> Emacs don't work in your case.  That has nothing to do with PostScript
> and colors.
>  
We are talking about two problems. I wanted it to be very clear that 
there are only two options that we are aware of now to get color printing:

   1) Using the externa program Ghostscript
   2) Using the elisp file htmlize-view.el (or something similar)

I think this thread has made this very clear too.


> Right, and that is the problem I thought we were trying to solve in
> this thread.
>  
I would like to solve that too if we can. At the moment I am out of 
ideas. Not totally of course (see above), but I do not know what to test 
further.

The printer we are currently talking about works perfectly well 
otherwise. I print to it several times every day.

>  
>
> > > The printer enters the PostScript state automatically when it sees the
> > > PostScript preamble.
> > >
> > >      
> > I am sorry but I have seen printers where this does not happen.
> >    
>
> They are either broken or incorrectly set up.
I am not sure of that. This happened in a mixed computer environment.