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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?