Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:49:40 -0500
> From: BRUCE INGALLS <bruce.ingalls@gmail.com>
> 
> Windows version 2000 and higher, are bundled with VBScript & JScript, by
> default.
> I had posted code to gnu.emacs.sources, in Sept. 2005, a way to retrieve the
> default printer port into Emacs:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.sources/browse_thread/thread/a9f1a308223bc3b9/e2cf485072e3164b#e2cf485072e3164b
> 
> You can easily query all manner of Windows printer properties,
> and customize the code above, to bring such into Emacs.

Thanks.  The question is, will this script find usable ports on
systems where people report they cannot find a port name that Emacs
can use?

> Htmlview & notepad make fine stop-gap measures, to make w32 emacs printing
> easier.
> However, I don't believe there has been a good explanation, as to why some
> zealously believe that printing must be embedded in, or dedicated to, Emacs.

What would be the alternative on Windows, given that an lpr-like
program is not always available?

> That said, yet another hack is available: there already is code to export
> emacs buffers to PDF.

Can we have the URL, please?

> I don't know, if a command-line pdf printing program exists.

If it did (or does) exist, it could be also used to print plain text.