Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

> > 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?

If I run w32prn-customize I get an error. w32prn-default returns something like

  PDF-XChange
  My Documents\\*.pdf
  PRINTER15:PASSTHROU
  PRINTER15:PASSTHROU
  PRINTER20:RAW