From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:41:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83zgtodx8j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y299fpmh.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Anand Tamariya Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 13:43:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDmdt-0008DA-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:43:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDmds-0005Rh-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDmc6-0004Qz-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDmc6-0001Ef-5z; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2919 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDmc5-0000sS-1O; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:41:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Anand Tamariya on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:02:03 +0530) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272319 Archived-At: > From: Anand Tamariya > 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.