bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[David Abrahams]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Even though I've set pr-faces-p to t, printing a buffer where I've set
the face to info-title-1 still seems to send courier to the printer.
The face looks nice and big and sans-serify on my screen.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2009-01-05 on mcbain
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-. C-p C-n 
C-, C-, C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-. C-. C-. C-. C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-f C-n 
C-p C-b <return> <return> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> M-x e m a c s - b u <tab> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <tab> b u <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> 
b u g <tab> <tab> C-g M-x f i l e - e <tab> <backspace> 
b u <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> C-g M-x a p r 
o r <backspace> p o s <return> b u g <return> M-x s 
u b <tab> C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> 
<double-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> 
<down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> 
<down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> C-s e m a c s C-g C-n C-n 
C-x C-p C-s e m a c s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a C-x 
C-n M-x r e p <tab> o <tab> t <backspace> r t - e m 
<tab> b <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[Chong Yidong]

Hi Vinicius,

Would you mind taking a look at this bug report?  Thanks.


David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:

> Even though I've set pr-faces-p to t, printing a buffer where I've set
> the face to info-title-1 still seems to send courier to the printer.
> The face looks nice and big and sans-serify on my screen.
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
>  of 2009-01-05 on mcbain
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version
>  11.0.10502000
> configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
>  '--prefix=/usr/local''

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

Hi David,


Sorry for the very long delay, I'm very short in time these days.

Well, printing package uses ps-print package to generate a PostScript 
file to be printed.

And ps-print does not deal with all face attributes. At present moment 
only the following face attributes are used by ps-print: bold, italic, 
underline, background color and foreground color.

The variable ps-font-family specifies the font used by all ordinary text 
to be generated.  The default is 'Courier.

When ps-print was created (1993), there weren't face attributes like 
font family, width and height.

So, I don't think this is a bug, but a missing feature.


Vinicius


Chong Yidong wrote:
> Hi Vinicius,
>
> Would you mind taking a look at this bug report?  Thanks.
>
>
> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Even though I've set pr-faces-p to t, printing a buffer where I've set
>> the face to info-title-1 still seems to send courier to the printer.
>> The face looks nice and big and sans-serify on my screen.
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
>>  of 2009-01-05 on mcbain
>> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version
>>  11.0.10502000
>> configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
>>  '--prefix=/usr/local''
>>     

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[David Abrahams]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>
> Sorry for the very long delay, I'm very short in time these days.
>
> Well, printing package uses ps-print package to generate a  
> PostScript file to be printed.
>
> And ps-print does not deal with all face attributes. At present  
> moment only the following face attributes are used by ps-print:  
> bold, italic, underline, background color and foreground color.
>
> The variable ps-font-family specifies the font used by all ordinary  
> text to be generated.  The default is 'Courier.
>
> When ps-print was created (1993), there weren't face attributes like  
> font family, width and height.
>
> So, I don't think this is a bug, but a missing feature.
>


Great; thanks.  So could you consider my report a feature request?

Cheers,
--
David Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://boostpro.com

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

David Abrahams wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the very long delay, I'm very short in time these days.
>>
>> Well, printing package uses ps-print package to generate a PostScript 
>> file to be printed.
>>
>> And ps-print does not deal with all face attributes. At present 
>> moment only the following face attributes are used by ps-print: bold, 
>> italic, underline, background color and foreground color.
>>
>> The variable ps-font-family specifies the font used by all ordinary 
>> text to be generated.  The default is 'Courier.
>>
>> When ps-print was created (1993), there weren't face attributes like 
>> font family, width and height.
>>
>> So, I don't think this is a bug, but a missing feature.
>
>
> Great; thanks.  So could you consider my report a feature request?


Yes, for sure.

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[Richard M Stallman]

Does this mean Emacs printing has lost face?

bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

> Does this mean Emacs printing has lost face?
>   


Hmmm, no, it was not defined any lost face by Emacs printing.  ;-)

Well, more seriously, what it is missing by Emacs printing is to handle 
proportional fonts.

Emacs printing deals with faces but does not handle font-family, width 
and height attributes.