Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

[Harald Maier]

Hello all,

I switch to Latin-9 (de_DE@euro) an all works fine except postscript
printing. If I print a buffer with german umlauts emacs complaints
that the 'Font for some characters not found'. How can I solve this
problem? The problem happens with both emacs-21.3 and emacs-21.3.50.

Harald

Re: Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:23:37 +0100
> 
> I switch to Latin-9 (de_DE@euro) an all works fine except postscript
> printing. If I print a buffer with german umlauts emacs complaints
> that the 'Font for some characters not found'. How can I solve this
> problem? The problem happens with both emacs-21.3 and emacs-21.3.50.

See the variable ps-mule-font-info-database-default: you need to
customize it so that it supports Latin-9, in a way similar to what
ps-mule-font-info-database-latin does for Latin-1.  The doc string of
ps-mule-font-info-database should explain the data structure of these
variables.

(All the variables I mentioned are defined and used on ps-mule.el,
which see.)

Re: Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

[Harald Maier]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:23:37 +0100
>> 
>> I switch to Latin-9 (de_DE@euro) an all works fine except postscript
>> printing. If I print a buffer with german umlauts emacs complaints
>> that the 'Font for some characters not found'. How can I solve this
>> problem? The problem happens with both emacs-21.3 and emacs-21.3.50.
>
> See the variable ps-mule-font-info-database-default: you need to
> customize it so that it supports Latin-9, in a way similar to what
> ps-mule-font-info-database-latin does for Latin-1.  The doc string of
> ps-mule-font-info-database should explain the data structure of these
> variables.
>
> (All the variables I mentioned are defined and used on ps-mule.el,
> which see.)

Thanks Eli,

I have changed the variable ps-mule-font-info-database-default to

,----
| ((latin-iso8859-15              ; new entry
|  (normal nil nil iso-latin-9))  ; new entry
|  (latin-iso8859-1
|  (normal nil nil iso-latin-1)))
`----

The German umlauts now print very fine, except the Euro sign. The Euro
sign still prints on paper as circle with edges (¤). In emacs
displaying of the Euro sign is fine. If anybody knows how to change
that I would appreciate it.

Harald

Re: Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:05:21 +0100
> 
> The German umlauts now print very fine, except the Euro sign. The Euro
> sign still prints on paper as circle with edges (¤).

Perhaps your printer doesn't have a Latin-9 PostScript font?

Re: Latin-9: Font Problem with ps-print and German Umlauts

[Harald Maier]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:05:21 +0100
>> 
>> The German umlauts now print very fine, except the Euro sign. The Euro
>> sign still prints on paper as circle with edges (¤).
>
> Perhaps your printer doesn't have a Latin-9 PostScript font?

Hmh, that might be true, but I get the same result as by the printer
with ghostscript, so I assume there might be other things that needs
to be set. Has anybody luck to print the Euro Sign with ps-print.el?

Harald