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Re: emacs 22 release
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Sébastien Kirche |
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Re: emacs 22 release |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:26:50 z |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.5-b21 (darwin) |
At 16:10 on Oct 1 2005, Peter Dyballa said :
> How? Is there any reason why GNU Emacs should send different PS code
> to the *PostScript* buffer then to the printer queue?
Actually, i don't know, but IIRC I was not able to printthe euro sign to
the network printer HP LaserJet here until I found that setting
somewhere in the web.
> I wouldn't buy a printer without PostScript, so I do not have any need
> to use gs between GNU Emacs or another application and the printer.
> And it's modern enough to be able to print € or ISO 8859-16 glyphs.
> It's CUPS that finally takes care for a good printout, being able to
> convert text to PS too?
I dunno.
> There is just one need for gs: to view GNU Emacs' output or to convert
> this output reliably to PDF. Apple's own pstopdf in Mac OS X fails as
> does any other application when made to display this: they all first
> need to convert PS to PDF to make it display (as "Display PDF") in
> Quartz.
Yes. I never understood why can't one see a ps-printed emacs page
correctly on OSX without processing it first.
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Sébastien Kirche
Re: emacs 22 release, Stefan Monnier, 2005/10/04