Re: 23.0.50; ps-print-buffer-with-faces hangs on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
> > Emacs hangs in direct-print-region-helper in the call to

I should have said that this function is in dos-w32.el.

> >   (write-region start end printer t 0)
> >
> > at the end of the function. Emacs is completely hanged. I have to kill 
> > Emacs from Windows Task Manager.
>
> Did you try to type `C-g' (one or more times)??  What happened?

Emacs is completely frozen.

> > On my pc (Windows XP pro) printer has here got the value C:\PRN. That 
> > value has nothing to do with my printer, which is a Windows printer.
>
> What exactly does this mean?
>
> Does any Emacs variable have the value "C:\\PRN"?

The variable `printer' above.

> What is a "Windows printer"?

I forgot what these printers are called. It seems like they are called 
"GDI printers" or "winprinters". Mine a hp laserjet 1020. (BTW there 
seems to exist GNU/Linux drivers for those printers today, 
seehttp://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/. They translate from PostScript.)

> > To reproduce this do for example
> >
> >   emacs -Q
> >   M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces
>
> Well, I can't reproduce this problem in my GNU/Linux (Debian).
>
> Please, do the following steps:

Thanks, but this is a problem with how Emacs access the printer. As I 
understand it there is no problem with printing.el. I am sorry for 
beeing unclear.