From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mark Aufflick" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing from modern Emacsen Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:37:28 +1100 Message-ID: <1242f34a0603020337w7f3b5c38m4e1bf12b8e30c55e@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141464545 23972 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2006 09:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 04 10:29:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFT4O-00034H-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:29:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFT4Q-0005tC-Vg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFSK8-0002T0-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFSK2-0002OK-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEm7d-0001Q5-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:37:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.194] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FEm96-0006dq-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so382662wra for ; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:37:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kKxjDU2QdXkenWxKZW7HM6yIsKqtEtlahxHY18t7ukty5i7ij2l/pNHiYRszQ/Ihq50kkfzY/J76t1dguJfbkqOPsxqbzEUliue7yihx1NGkKQSlbq0j8hYDhePU4/+vbD+aMJVHftGnSuqbLHCN7Foneu0ohWPCfcChi+U/9rI= Original-Received: by 10.65.54.5 with SMTP id g5mr611064qbk; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:37:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.65.239.11 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:37:28 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Kenichi Handa" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:52:49 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51141 Archived-At: My Optra T610 gives the below error. According to the demo page it has Postscript 3. I assume it's genuine because it doesn't say "Postscript Compatible" Unfortunately I threw out my LaserWriter IIg a few years ago! ERROR: invalidfont OFFENDING COMMAND: STACK: # ERROR: invalidfont # OFFENDING command: definefont # stack: -dictionary- /F01 # ERRORINFO: On 3/1/06, Kenichi Handa wrote: > I'm very sorry for not reponding on this subject. > > In article , "Richard M. Stallman" <= rms@gnu.org> writes: > > > In principle, I think it would be good to move towards a Unicode-based > > printing system for Emacs. Especially in the Unicode-2 branch. I am > > not sure how far away we are from that goal. Handa, can you tell us? > > I've been working (but slowly) on using TTF font directly > from ps-print, and just finished the first version of such a > tool (ps-ttf.el; yet another external library for ps-print). > It basically generates a Type42 PostScript font from TTF > (defining only glyphs necessary for printing the current > text) and embed it in the output. > > But, it requires a PostScript printer to support TrueType > rasterizer (i.e. version 2013 or the later), and also > requires several backward compatibility issues for version > yanger than 3011. > > I tried to address those backward compatibility issues, but > as I don't have an old PostScript printer, I'm not sure how > well it works. > > So, I'd like to ask you to print the attached PostScript > file on PostScript printers around you. As recent > ghostscript has no problem on handling it, if your printer > is drived by ghostscript, you should be able to get the > correct result. > > The file is created on emacs-unicode-2 by (ps-print-buffer > "~/temp.ps") on *Character List* buffer for > cyrillic-iso8859-5 using FreeMono.ttf > (http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/). > > --- > Kenichi Handa > handa@m17n.org > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > iBurst Wireless Broadband from $34.95/month www.platformnetworks.net > Forward undetected SPAM to: spam@mailsecurity.net.au > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel > > >