I added (setq ps-printer-name t )
Still no luck. See this in *Message* buffer:
Formatting...done
Printing...done
but nothing prints anywhere
If I enter this string:
gswin64c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH test.pdf
into a windows command window, a window opens then closes before I can
see what it was, then nothing happens.
Previously, I did not have to install ghostprint or gsview myself, I
would just set the printer anme like this:
(setq ps-printer-name "//SCU-DS280R1/Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP PS")
and then ps-print functions would work.
Emacs is aware of the default printer, because if I use non-postscript
print functions, they print the buffer ok.
Different is now Windows 7 instead of Windows NT.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:25:37 -0700
>> From: Michael Flynn <michaelsfl...@gmail.com>
>>
>> I'm going crazy trying to get postscript printing working.
>> Previously, whenever I installed emacs on windows, I just needed to
>> set the printer names and Hey Presto! it worked.
>
> So what's different this time? I mean, in your Windows version,
> configuration, printers, Emacs version, whatever else?
>
>> Installed ghostscript and gsview
>> Ensured the .exe files were in the path.
>> Put this (and a hundred different combos) in my .emacs
>>
>> ;; Set up printing
>> (message "Set up printing")
>>
>>
>> (setenv "GS_LIB" "C:/Program Files/gs/gs9.04/lib")
>> (setq ps-lpr-command "C:/Program Files/gs/gs9.04/bin/gswin64c.exe")
>> ;;(setq ps-lpr-command "C:/Program Files/Ghostgum/gsview/gsprint.exe")
>> ;; tried this too - no luck
>> (setq ps-lpr-switches '("-q" "-query" "-dNOPAUSE" "-dBATCH"))
>> ;;(setq ps-printer-name "//SCU-DS280R1/Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP PS"
>> ) ;; uncommenting this and taking -query option out of
>> ps-lpr-switches does not affect behavior
>>
>> ;; end Set up printing
>
> Did you use Ghostscript on your previous Windows installations? Or
> did printing work back then without Ghostscript?
>
>> What happens is that print-buffer works but if I execute
>> ps-print-buffer no errors appear but nothing much else happens. If I
>> watch the *Messages* buffer I see the message "Printing..." which soon
>> changes to "Printing...done." But nothing shows at the printer.
>> If I try to exit Emacs, it warns that there are processes still
>> running and do I really want to Exit.
>>
>> If from the windows command prompt I use gsprint to print a .pdf file,
>> it prints ok.
>
> If you save Emacs's PostScript output to a file, with
>
> C-u M-x ps-print-buffer RET
>
> and then invoke gswin64c.exe via call-process using its full absolute
> file name as set in ps-lpr-command, to print that file, does that
> work?
>
> Btw, the Emacs manual also tells to set ps-printer-name to t, when you
> use Ghostscript. Did you do that?
