Re: landscape postscript printing

[David Penton]

On 2010-12-18, at 5:26 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

Thanks Peter. See my comments below.

> 
> Am 18.12.2010 um 06:07 schrieb David Penton:
> 
>> Am I setting the wrong customization option or something? Duh.
> 
> 
> Are you saving it? For testing the changed customisation you can press the 
> "Set for Current Session" button. Without doing so nothing is changed. To use 
> the changed settings in a future session you'll need to press the "Save for 
> Future Sessions" button. This command will command will write some Emacs Lisp 
> code into the "custom-set-variables" section of your user-init-file (a 
> variable, so you can retrieve its actual value). They could be:
> 

Yes, the customization is saved. ps-number-of-columns is set to 1 in the 
customization buffer, and also I can see it in the file. It still does not work.

> '(ps-n-up-printing 1)
> '(ps-number-of-columns 3)
> '(ps-paper-type (quote a4))
> 
> etc. For tests you can substitute the ps-print-* commands with ps-spool-* 
> commands. They produce *PostScript* buffers in GNU Emacs. You can save them 
> on disk as files to view them in some PostScript viewer (Preview converts PS 
> first to PDF internally), without having to kill a wood or two for printouts 
> on paper.
> 

That's exactly what I have been doing.

> For me, on Mac OS X 10.5.8, Leopard, it works with
> 
>       GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-11-30 
> on ...
> 
> 

I just downloaded Carbon Emacs 22.3.1. I checked the customizations that I 
*believe* are involved. I set ps-number-of-pages to 1, and landscape mode on. I 
confirmed that these settings are saved. However, I still cannot get one-column 
landscape that way.

Could some other setting be interfering?

> BTW, if you are customising GNU Emacs in more than one *Customize <whatever>* 
> buffers at the same time, you have to save the customisation from each of 
> these buffers.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
> Pete
> 
> They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
>