Re: w32 issues

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:33:27 -0300
> > From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
> >  address@hidden
> >
> > > What that program does is simply give you a way of sending a file with
> > > PostScript commands to a printer that supports PostScript.  So if a
> > > user has a PostScript capable printer, but cannot refer to that
> > > printer either as a port such as LPT2 or as a networked share such as
> > > \\server\printer, then yes, such a user will be able to use that
> > > program as a solution.
> > >   
> > The program documentation says that it deals with LPT, PRN, USB, and 
> > network printers (\\server\printer).
>
> Yes, of course.  What I wanted to say was that Emacs already knows how
> to deal with all but the USB types.

Should it not help a little bit to use StartDocPrinter etc? But that is 
not the final solution of course and I believe it will only help a small 
fragment of the users.


> > Also the program lists all printer name which are accessible by the 
> > computer.
>
> Sure, but so does the standard Printers applet in the Start->Settings
> dialog.