Re: Printing

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:04:37 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:36:01 +0200
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> > One way to fix this would be to update our default for
>> >> > ps-mule-font-info-database so that it handles Unicode -- assuming that
>> >> > modern PostScript printers indeed support large subranges of the
>> >> > Unicode codespace.  I'm not an expert on printing, so I wouldn't know
>> >> > if this is possible.
>> >>
>> >> Since printing with Emacs through the web browser (using
>> >> htmlfontify.el) does work it seems like modern printers do support
>> >> this. Or am I missing something?
>> >
>> > You are missing the fact that I was talking about PostScript printing,
>> > not printing via the Windows printer API.
>>
>> I am not sure about that. Could someone who have this problem and have
>> a PostScript printer try printing through the web browser, please?
>
> And that will prove what, exactly? that Windows knows how to use a PS
> driver for a printer?

I think that the browser will send PostScript to the printer. So I
believe it will show that the printer actually can print all the text
- but I am sure I might be missing something here.