Re: [h-e-w] Printing - At Wit's End

[Michael Flynn]

Eli,
temporary-file-directory is set to C:\Users\mflynn\AppData\Local\Temp

The instant I hit Enter after typing M-x ps-print-buffer a file called
EP6452j-r  is created in the temporary directory.   It is 36kb in
size.
The Pinter Dialog box opens.   I choose a printer, the instant I hit
OK the temporary file EP6452j-2 goes away, and with some printers
nothing else happens and with some a file called received.xml is
created in the temporary directory but also goes away after less than
a second.
 Below is the top of the file EP6452j-2 and below that are the last
few lines.   The buffer I am trying to print has a quote that you'll
recognize in it.  So the file is a file of postscript, I suppose.
The dialog to choose a printer is called from ghostscript  (gswin32c)
and while that dialog is open I can see in Windows task manager that
gswin32c.exe is called with the parameters we specified in my .emacs
and the file specified is the file EP6452j-2 created in the temporary
directory.

While gswin32c.exe is waiting for me to choose a printer, if I run
gswin32.c.exe on the temporary file or on a copy of it, I get this
output:


C:\Users\mflynn\AppData\Local\Temp>gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
-sDEVICE=mswinpr2 EP6452jFg
Error: /undefined in State:
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   fa
lse   1   %stopped_push   1926   1   3   %oparray_pop   1925   1   3
%oparray_pop   1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1803   1   3
%oparray_pop   --nostringval-
-   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1167/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 107
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

If I run ps-print-buffer with an argument and specify myfile.ps as the
output file and  C:\Users\mflynn\AppData\Local\Temp as the
destination, then run gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
-sDEVICE=mswinpr2 myfile.ps
I get exactly the same error.


Here are the top few and last few lines of the temporary file (of postscript?)

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
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%%For: Michael Flynn
   State: EDITED, shown value does not take effect until you set or save it.
%%CreationDate: 12:56:47 Jul 24 2012
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% This file is part of GNU Emacs.

% GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
% the Free Software Foundation,

... etc.  and it ends like this:

These lines must be kept together because...

/h0 F
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/h1 F
/HeaderLineHeight FontHeight def
/HeaderDescent    Descent def

/H0 F
/FooterLineHeight FontHeight def
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:45:04 -0700
>> From: Michael Flynn <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Michel de Ruiter <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>> When trying to ps-print-buffer from emacs, if I select PDF from the
>> printer list, it asks where I want to save the pdf file.  Then the
>> progress dialog shows up, shows a little progress then just stops.
>>
>> In all cases, in *Messages* "Printing..." is written, then immediately
>> "Done" is appended.   Emacs seems to think the print job has finished
>> before it really has time to do anything.
>>
>> It is as if emacs is calling gswin32c.exe or gswin64c.exe  but after
>> starting to communicate with the printer (driver) it kills off the
>> child process that gswin32.c is running in.   It is definitely getting
>> something started because the PDF converter and the HP printer utility
>> are indicating that they have been stimulated.
>
> Emacs writes the PostScript data to a temporary file, then invokes
> Ghostscript on that temporary file.  What does the following show in
> Emacs?
>
>    M-: temporary-file-directory RET
>
> It should show an existing directory on your local disk.  If it does,
> then open that directory in the Window Explorer and try "ps-print"
> again.  You should see a file created there whose name begins with
> "EP".  If you invoke Process Explorer or something similar, you should
> see there gswin32c.exe being invoked with this file as an argument.
> Can you see if all this works as expected?



-- 
Michael Flynn
Attorney at Law
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