Андрей Парамонов skrev:

> b) Use standard GTK+ printing facilities as GEdit and many other
>    applications do. Emacs is built with GTK+ interface for quite some
>    time now, so I suppose there should be no architectural problem in
>    using GTK+ for printing as well. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>

The problem is that Gtk+ printing assumes you are rendering with cairo.  Emacs
does not do that.  Changing that would be a major undertaking.  Something
like porting Emacs to a totally new toolkit.

Jan D.