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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 14:41:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgtodx8j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADm7Y4nTmUXhjarAYdsZ2F9EnPFSLXR-3Y7nf3+dBtZypyP=iw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Anand Tamariya on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:02:03 +0530)

> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:02:03 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Printers use "postscriptname" defined in a font file while searching for fonts. psname.txt provides a sample
> of how to read that information from a font backend. It is not mandatory - but its presence will prevent nasty
> surprises. In its absence, Lisp code uses font file base name. If the file name doesn't match
> postscriptname, printing might fail - "might" because printer will try its best to substitute a suitable font.
> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-11 11:41 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 [this message]
2021-08-11 15:49       ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 16:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
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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