1 ;;; mh-print.el --- MH-E printing support
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38 (defvar mh-ps-print-color-option ps-print-color-p
39 "Specify how buffer's text color is printed.
43 nil - Do not print colors.
45 black-white - Print colors on black/white printer.
46 See also `ps-black-white-faces'.
48 Any other value is treated as t. This variable is initialized
49 from `ps-print-color-p'.")
51 (defvar mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
52 "Function to use to spool a buffer.
54 Sensible choices are the functions `ps-spool-buffer' and
55 `ps-spool-buffer-with-faces'.")
58 (defun mh-ps-print-msg (range)
59 "Print RANGE\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
61 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how RANGE is
62 read in interactive use.
64 This command will print inline text attachments but will not decrypt
65 messages. However, when a message is displayed in an MH-Show buffer,
66 then that buffer is used verbatim for printing with the caveat that
67 only text attachments, if opened inline, are printed. Therefore,
68 encrypted messages can be printed by showing and decrypting them
71 MH-E uses the \"ps-print\" package to do the printing, so you can
72 customize the printing further by going to the `ps-print'
73 customization group. This command does not use the options
74 `mh-lpr-command-format' or `mh-print-background-flag'. See also the
75 commands \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-color] and
76 \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-faces]."
77 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print")))
78 (mh-ps-print-range range nil
))
80 (defun mh-ps-print-range (range file
)
83 This is the function that actually does the work.
84 If FILE is nil, then the messages are spooled to the printer."
85 (mh-iterate-on-range msg range
87 (mh-ps-spool-msg msg
))
88 (mh-notate msg mh-note-printed mh-cmd-note
))
91 (defun mh-ps-spool-msg (msg)
93 (let* ((folder mh-current-folder
)
94 (buffer (mh-in-show-buffer (mh-show-buffer)
95 (if (not (equal (mh-msg-filename msg folder
)
97 (get-buffer-create mh-temp-buffer
)))))
101 (let ((mh-show-buffer buffer
))
102 (mh-display-msg msg folder
)))
103 (mh-ps-spool-buffer (if buffer buffer mh-show-buffer
)))
105 (kill-buffer buffer
)))))
107 (defun mh-ps-spool-buffer (buffer)
111 (let ((ps-print-color-p mh-ps-print-color-option
)
114 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Subject:") ")")
115 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "From:") ")")))
118 "/pagenumberstring load"
119 (concat "(" (mh-get-header-field "Date:") ")"))))
120 (funcall mh-ps-print-func
))))
123 (defun mh-ps-print-msg-file (range file
)
124 "Print RANGE to FILE\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
126 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how RANGE is
127 read in interactive use.
129 This command will print inline text attachments but will not decrypt
130 messages. However, when a message is displayed in an MH-Show buffer,
131 then that buffer is used verbatim for printing with the caveat that
132 only text attachments, if opened inline, are printed. Therefore,
133 encrypted messages can be printed by showing and decrypting them
136 MH-E uses the \"ps-print\" package to do the printing, so you can
137 customize the printing further by going to the `ps-print'
138 customization group. This command does not use the options
139 `mh-lpr-command-format' or `mh-print-background-flag'. See also the
140 commands \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-color] and
141 \\[mh-ps-print-toggle-faces]."
142 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print") (mh-ps-print-preprint 1)))
143 (mh-ps-print-range range file
))
145 (defun mh-ps-print-preprint (prefix-arg)
146 "Provide a better default file name for `ps-print-preprint'.
147 Pass along the PREFIX-ARG to it."
148 (let ((buffer-file-name (format "mh-%s" (substring (buffer-name) 1))))
149 (ps-print-preprint prefix-arg
)))
152 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-faces ()
153 "Toggle whether printing is done with faces or not.
155 When faces are enabled, the printed message will look very
156 similar to the message in the MH-Show buffer."
158 (if (eq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
160 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer
)
161 (message "Printing without faces"))
162 (setq mh-ps-print-func
'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
)
163 (message "Printing with faces")))
166 (defun mh-ps-print-toggle-color ()
167 "Toggle whether color is used in printing messages.
169 Colors are emulated on black-and-white printers with shades of
170 gray. This might produce illegible output, even if your screen
171 colors only use shades of gray. If this is the case, try using
172 this command to toggle between color, no color, and a black and
173 white representation of the colors and see which works best. You
174 change this setting permanently by customizing the option
177 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
179 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
180 (message "Colors will be printed as black & white"))
181 (if (eq mh-ps-print-color-option
'black-white
)
183 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option t
)
184 (message "Colors will be printed"))
185 (setq mh-ps-print-color-option nil
)
186 (message "Colors will not be printed"))))
188 ;; Old non-PS based printing
190 (defun mh-print-msg (range)
191 "Print RANGE the old fashioned way\\<mh-folder-mode-map>.
193 The message is formatted with \"mhl\" (see option
194 `mh-mhl-format-file') and printed with the \"lpr\" command (see
195 option `mh-lpr-command-format').
197 Check the documentation of `mh-interactive-range' to see how
198 RANGE is read in interactive use.
200 Consider using \\[mh-ps-print-msg] instead."
201 (interactive (list (mh-interactive-range "Print")))
202 (message "Printing...")
204 ;; Gather message numbers and add them to "printed" sequence.
205 (mh-iterate-on-range msg range
206 (mh-add-msgs-to-seq msg
'printed t
)
207 (mh-notate nil mh-note-printed mh-cmd-note
)
209 (setq msgs
(nreverse msgs
))
210 ;; Print scan listing if we have more than one message.
211 (if (> (length msgs
) 1)
213 (mapconcat 'identity
(mh-list-to-string
214 (mh-coalesce-msg-list msgs
)) " "))
216 (format mh-lpr-command-format
218 (format "Folder: %s, Messages: %s"
219 mh-current-folder msgs-string
))
221 (format "Folder: %s, Sequence: %s"
222 mh-current-folder range
)))))
224 (format "scan %s | %s" msgs-string lpr-command
)))
225 (if mh-print-background-flag
226 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" scan-command
)
227 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" scan-command
))))
228 ;; Print the messages
230 (let* ((mhl-command (format "%s %s %s"
231 (expand-file-name "mhl" mh-lib-progs
)
232 (if mh-mhl-format-file
233 (format " -form %s" mh-mhl-format-file
)
235 (mh-msg-filename msg
)))
237 (format mh-lpr-command-format
238 (format "%s/%s" mh-current-folder msg
)))
240 (format "%s | %s" mhl-command lpr-command
)))
241 (if mh-print-background-flag
242 (mh-exec-cmd-daemon shell-file-name nil
"-c" print-command
)
243 (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
"-c" print-command
)))))
244 (message "Printing...done"))
249 ;; indent-tabs-mode: nil
250 ;; sentence-end-double-space: nil
253 ;; arch-tag: 8d84d50b-2a49-4d0d-b51e-ba9c9b6fc679
254 ;;; mh-print.el ends here