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Re: Printing
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Printing |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:11:07 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> The way every modern platform does that: through a printer API,
> whereby you select fonts and layout, then render text to some device,
> and the text gets printed to the printer you select. Since Emacs
> already knows how to render text, it shouldn't be too hard to teach it
> do so to something other than a screen.
FWIW, XEmacs has an msprinter device for exactly this purpose. AFAIK,
our Windows users are mostly satisfied with printing per se, although
our printer config dialog seems rife with nasty regressions. :-(