From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:51:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lf57exgd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADm7Y4nrS8CScwZCJwq-mbhyLZwjsJ4_Kp3o2sjc00sQEp4muA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Anand Tamariya on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:19:14 +0530)
> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:19:14 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Theoretically, there's no dependency except Ghostscript which does most of the heavy lifting for
> printing in
> > Emacs. Fonts other than Truetype might require additional configuration as defined in Ghostscript
> manual.
>
> Could you please point to the code which uses or requires Ghostscript,
> I don't think I see it in the patch you sent. And since you seem to
> be using the HarfBuzz rendering, why do we need Ghostscript at all?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Correction is in order - the screenshot/ rendering within Emacs requires Ghostscript. Printing to printer
> would use OS specific print commands e.g. lpr on *nix.
Now I'm even more confused. How does one "render within Emacs with
Ghostscript"? Emacs display rendering uses our display engine, which
doesn't need Ghostscript, and AFAIK cannot use it. I guess I'm
misunderstanding something very basic here...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 9:29 [Patch] Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs Anand Tamariya
2021-08-10 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 18:12 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-11 3:39 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 4:32 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 15:49 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-11 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 5:34 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-12 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 6:45 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-12 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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