Re: w32 issues

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
>
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes:
> > We do not follow the API:s,
>
> <nitpicking>
> Streaming printer data to a device *is* an API.  It's just that
> Microsoft has decided not to spend much support on it these days.
> </nitpicking>

Yes, of course.

> Just for the record I would like to note that there is a system that
> uses a standard printer language, can be plugged-in into Emacs rather
> easily, and can print to any printer using the high-level GDI APIs,
> namely Ghostscript.

Yes, that is good and it is also now mentioned in the manual:

  (info "(emacs) Windows Printing")

The problem is that it requires an external program that not everyone has.

Another way is printing using a web browser which all users on w32 have. 
I hope that htmlfontify.el soon will be part of Emacs. It is then easy 
to print using that to make a html copy of the buffer look and some 
additional routines, like those I put together in hfyview.el. You can 
actually have a bit of fun with that:

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/htmlfontify-example.html

> benny
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