1 ;;; mh-print.el --- MH-E printing support
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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)
109 (let ((ps-print-color-p mh-ps-print-color-option
)
112 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Subject:") ")")
113 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "From:") ")")))
116 "/pagenumberstring load"
117 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Date:") ")"))))
118 (funcall mh-ps-print-func
))))
121 (defun mh-ps-print-msg-file (range file
)
122 "Print RANGE to FILE\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
124 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how RANGE is
125 read in interactive use.
127 This command will print inline text attachments but will not decrypt
128 messages. However, when a message is displayed in an MH-Show buffer,
129 then that buffer is used verbatim for printing with the caveat that
130 only text attachments, if opened inline, are printed. Therefore,
131 encrypted messages can be printed by showing and decrypting them
134 MH-E uses the \"ps-print\" package to do the printing, so you can
135 customize the printing further by going to the `ps-print'
136 customization group. This command does not use the options
137 `mh-lpr-command-format' or `mh-print-background-flag'. See also the
138 commands \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-color] and
139 \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-faces]."
140 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print") (mh-ps-print-preprint 1)))
141 (mh-ps-print-range range file
))
143 (defun mh-ps-print-preprint (prefix-arg)
144 "Provide a better default file name for `ps-print-preprint'.
145 Pass along the PREFIX-ARG to it."
146 (let ((buffer-file-name (format "mh-%s" (substring (buffer-name) 1))))
147 (ps-print-preprint prefix-arg
)))
150 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-faces ()
151 "Toggle whether printing is done with faces or not.
153 When faces are enabled, the printed message will look very
154 similar to the message in the MH-Show buffer."
156 (if (eq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
158 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer
)
159 (message "Printing without faces"))
160 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
161 (message "Printing with faces")))
164 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-color ()
165 "Toggle whether color is used in printing messages.
167 Colors are emulated on black-and-white printers with shades of
168 gray. This might produce illegible output, even if your screen
169 colors only use shades of gray. If this is the case, try using
170 this command to toggle between color, no color, and a black and
171 white representation of the colors and see which works best. You
172 change this setting permanently by customizing the option
175 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
177 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
178 (message "Colors will be printed as black & white"))
179 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
181 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option t
)
182 (message "Colors will be printed"))
183 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
184 (message "Colors will not be printed"))))
186 ;; Old non-PS based printing
188 (defun mh-print-msg (range)
189 "Print RANGE the old fashioned way\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
191 The message is formatted with \"mhl\" (see option
192 `mh-mhl-format-file') and printed with the \"lpr\" command (see
193 option `mh-lpr-command-format').
195 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how
196 RANGE is read in interactive use.
198 Consider using \\[mh-ps-print-msg] instead."
199 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print")))
200 (message "Printing...")
202 ;; Gather message numbers and add them to "printed" sequence.
203 (mh-iterate-on-range msg range
204 (mh-add-msgs-to-seq msg
'printed t
)
205 (mh-notate nil mh-note-printed mh-cmd-note
)
207 (setq msgs
(nreverse msgs
))
208 ;; Print scan listing if we have more than one message.
209 (if (> (length msgs
) 1)
211 (mapconcat 'identity
(mh-list-to-string
212 (mh-coalesce-msg-list msgs
)) " "))
214 (format mh-lpr-command-format
216 (format "Folder: %s, Messages: %s"
217 mh-current-folder msgs-string
))
219 (format "Folder: %s, Sequence: %s"
220 mh-current-folder range
)))))
222 (format "scan %s | %s" msgs-string lpr-command
)))
223 (if mh-print-background-flag
224 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" scan-command
)
225 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" scan-command
))))
226 ;; Print the messages
228 (let* ((mhl-command (format "%s %s %s"
229 (expand-file-name "mhl" mh-lib-progs
)
230 (if mh-mhl-format-file
231 (format " -form %s" mh-mhl-format-file
)
233 (mh-msg-filename msg
)))
235 (format mh-lpr-command-format
236 (format "%s/%s" mh-current-folder msg
)))
238 (format "%s | %s" mhl-command lpr-command
)))
239 (if mh-print-background-flag
240 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" print-command
)
241 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" print-command
)))))
242 (message "Printing...done"))
247 ;; indent-tabs-mode: nil
248 ;; sentence-end-double-space: nil
251 ;; arch-tag: 8d84d50b-2a49-4d0d-b51e-ba9c9b6fc679
252 ;;; mh-print.el ends here