1 ;;; mh-print.el --- MH-E printing support
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5 ;; Author: Jeffrey C Honig <jch@honig.net>
6 ;; Maintainer: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
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36 (defvar mh-ps-print-color-option ps-print-color-p
37 "Specify how buffer's text color is printed.
41 nil - Do not print colors.
43 black-white - Print colors on black/white printer.
44 See also `ps-black-white-faces'.
46 Any other value is treated as t. This variable is initialized
47 from `ps-print-color-p'.")
49 (defvar mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
50 "Function to use to spool a buffer.
52 Sensible choices are the functions `ps-spool-buffer' and
53 `ps-spool-buffer-with-faces'.")
56 (defun mh-ps-print-msg (range)
57 "Print RANGE\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
59 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how RANGE is
60 read in interactive use.
62 This command will print inline text attachments but will not decrypt
63 messages. However, when a message is displayed in an MH-Show buffer,
64 then that buffer is used verbatim for printing with the caveat that
65 only text attachments, if opened inline, are printed. Therefore,
66 encrypted messages can be printed by showing and decrypting them
69 MH-E uses the \"ps-print\" package to do the printing, so you can
70 customize the printing further by going to the `ps-print'
71 customization group. This command does not use the options
72 `mh-lpr-command-format' or `mh-print-background-flag'. See also the
73 commands \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-color] and
74 \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-faces]."
75 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print")))
76 (mh-ps-print-range range nil
))
78 (defun mh-ps-print-range (range file
)
81 This is the function that actually does the work.
82 If FILE is nil, then the messages are spooled to the printer."
83 (mh-iterate-on-range msg range
85 (mh-ps-spool-msg msg
))
86 (mh-notate msg mh-note-printed mh-cmd-note
))
89 (defun mh-ps-spool-msg (msg)
91 (let* ((folder mh-current-folder
)
92 (buffer (mh-in-show-buffer (mh-show-buffer)
93 (if (not (equal (mh-msg-filename msg folder
)
95 (get-buffer-create mh-temp-buffer
)))))
99 (let ((mh-show-buffer buffer
))
100 (mh-display-msg msg folder
)))
101 (mh-ps-spool-buffer (if buffer buffer mh-show-buffer
)))
103 (kill-buffer buffer
)))))
105 (defun mh-ps-spool-buffer (buffer)
107 (with-current-buffer buffer
108 (let ((ps-print-color-p mh-ps-print-color-option
)
111 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Subject:") ")")
112 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "From:") ")")))
115 "/pagenumberstring load"
116 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Date:") ")"))))
117 (funcall mh-ps-print-func
))))
120 (defun mh-ps-print-msg-file (range file
)
121 "Print RANGE to FILE\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
123 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how RANGE is
124 read in interactive use.
126 This command will print inline text attachments but will not decrypt
127 messages. However, when a message is displayed in an MH-Show buffer,
128 then that buffer is used verbatim for printing with the caveat that
129 only text attachments, if opened inline, are printed. Therefore,
130 encrypted messages can be printed by showing and decrypting them
133 MH-E uses the \"ps-print\" package to do the printing, so you can
134 customize the printing further by going to the `ps-print'
135 customization group. This command does not use the options
136 `mh-lpr-command-format' or `mh-print-background-flag'. See also the
137 commands \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-color] and
138 \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-faces]."
139 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print") (mh-ps-print-preprint 1)))
140 (mh-ps-print-range range file
))
142 (defun mh-ps-print-preprint (prefix-arg)
143 "Provide a better default file name for `ps-print-preprint'.
144 Pass along the PREFIX-ARG to it."
145 (let ((buffer-file-name (format "mh-%s" (substring (buffer-name) 1))))
146 (ps-print-preprint prefix-arg
)))
149 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-faces ()
150 "Toggle whether printing is done with faces or not.
152 When faces are enabled, the printed message will look very
153 similar to the message in the MH-Show buffer."
155 (if (eq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
157 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer
)
158 (message "Printing without faces"))
159 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
160 (message "Printing with faces")))
163 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-color ()
164 "Toggle whether color is used in printing messages.
166 Colors are emulated on black-and-white printers with shades of
167 gray. This might produce illegible output, even if your screen
168 colors only use shades of gray. If this is the case, try using
169 this command to toggle between color, no color, and a black and
170 white representation of the colors and see which works best. You
171 change this setting permanently by customizing the option
174 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
176 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
177 (message "Colors will be printed as black & white"))
178 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
180 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option t
)
181 (message "Colors will be printed"))
182 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
183 (message "Colors will not be printed"))))
185 ;; Old non-PS based printing
187 (defun mh-print-msg (range)
188 "Print RANGE the old fashioned way\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
190 The message is formatted with \"mhl\" (see option
191 `mh-mhl-format-file') and printed with the \"lpr\" command (see
192 option `mh-lpr-command-format').
194 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how
195 RANGE is read in interactive use.
197 Consider using \\[mh-ps-print-msg] instead."
198 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print")))
199 (message "Printing...")
201 ;; Gather message numbers and add them to "printed" sequence.
202 (mh-iterate-on-range msg range
203 (mh-add-msgs-to-seq msg
'printed t
)
204 (mh-notate nil mh-note-printed mh-cmd-note
)
206 (setq msgs
(nreverse msgs
))
207 ;; Print scan listing if we have more than one message.
208 (if (> (length msgs
) 1)
210 (mapconcat 'identity
(mh-list-to-string
211 (mh-coalesce-msg-list msgs
)) " "))
213 (format mh-lpr-command-format
215 (format "Folder: %s, Messages: %s"
216 mh-current-folder msgs-string
))
218 (format "Folder: %s, Sequence: %s"
219 mh-current-folder range
)))))
221 (format "scan %s | %s" msgs-string lpr-command
)))
222 (if mh-print-background-flag
223 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" scan-command
)
224 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" scan-command
))))
225 ;; Print the messages
227 (let* ((mhl-command (format "%s %s %s"
228 (expand-file-name "mhl" mh-lib-progs
)
229 (if mh-mhl-format-file
230 (format " -form %s" mh-mhl-format-file
)
232 (mh-msg-filename msg
)))
234 (format mh-lpr-command-format
235 (format "%s/%s" mh-current-folder msg
)))
237 (format "%s | %s" mhl-command lpr-command
)))
238 (if mh-print-background-flag
239 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" print-command
)
240 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" print-command
)))))
241 (message "Printing...done"))
246 ;; indent-tabs-mode: nil
247 ;; sentence-end-double-space: nil
250 ;;; mh-print.el ends here