From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7911 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2014 01:54:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7817 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jun 2014 01:54:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-pa0-f42.google.com Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com (HELO mail-pa0-f42.google.com) (209.85.220.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:54:46 +0000 Received: by mail-pa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id lj1so5423468pab.1 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:54:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.66.232.166 with SMTP id tp6mr34703044pac.127.1403920484249; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.92.116.40] (mobile-198-228-213-213.mycingular.net. [198.228.213.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bv4sm59502454pad.25.2014.06.27.18.54.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:54:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Masterson X-Google-Original-From: David Masterson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: LPR output disappearing Message-Id: <1D27CF9C-FC17-4D20-9D6F-4C6548C38A7C@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:54:00 -0000 References: <868uoi9k6p.fsf@gmail.com> <76430859.20140628042746@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <76430859.20140628042746@yandex.ru> To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00433.txt.bz2 I understand what you're saying, but I believe that GV should take care of = the formatting. Otherwise, why is LPR the default print command for GV if i= t was expecting further processing to be done? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 27, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >=20 > Greetings, David Masterson! >=20 >> I created a PDF file with Org-Mode in Emacs and used "gv" and "lpr" to >> try to output. I have a Dell A10 printer attached to my Acer PC. The >> output looked like it was going to work in that the Dell popup that >> shows that the printer is about to print something popped up. However, >> it took a long time and eventually did nothing. I turned around and >> printed the same file with Adobe Acrobat Reader and it printed fine, so >> I guess the file is proper PDF. This is my first time attempting to do >> a printout with "lpr" in Cygwin, so maybe I haven't configured something >> appropriately or given lpr the proper arguments (I think it was given >> just the filename). >=20 >> Anyone know what's wrong? >=20 > If I understand you correctly, you've just tried to send PDF over to the > printer through LPR? > I'm afraid, it just not going to work, at all. > LPR, in essence, is just a file transfer tool. It doesn't do any format > conversion. Unless your printer natively understand PDF format (which I h= ighly > doubt), it would only output random ASCII garbage, or, as you've found ou= t, > nothing at best. (Nothing is actually the best possible output, trust me.= ..) >=20 >=20 > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 28.06.2014, <04:24> >=20 > Sorry for my terrible english... >=20 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple