Re: PostScript printing Latin-N (with N != 1) (was: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:37:54 +0100
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/bdf$ ls
> thai24.bdf        grk24-etl.bdf   gulim24.bdf       ethio24f-uni.bdf
> lt5-24-etl.bdf    cyr24-etl.bdf   gb24st.bdf        cns6-40.bdf
> lt4-24-etl.bdf    12x24rk.bdf     cns2-40.bdf       cns5-40.bdf
> lt3-24-etl.bdf    visc24-etl.bdf  cns1-40.bdf       cns4-40.bdf
> lt2-24-etl.bdf    taipei24.bdf    arab24-2-etl.bdf  cns3-40.bdf
> lt1-24-etl.bdf    sish24-etl.bdf  arab24-1-etl.bdf  ind24-mule.bdf
> lt1-16i-etl.bdf   lao24-mule.bdf  arab24-0-etl.bdf  cns7-40.bdf
> lt1-16bi-etl.bdf  jksp40.bdf      tib24-mule.bdf    fonts.cache-1
> lt1-16b-etl.bdf   jiskan24.bdf    tib1c24-mule.bdf
> heb24-etl.bdf     ipa24-etl.bdf   ind1c24-mule.bdf

Does any of these fonts support Latin-9?  If not, that's the reason
for the empty box instead of the Euro.

Also, the font database in ps-mule-font-info-database-bdf seems like
the font for Latin-9 characters is not set.

Alternatively, if you can find a BDF Latin-9 font and install it, your
text should print okay.

> (The same with `ps-multibyte-buffer' to 'bdf-font or
> 'bdf-font-except-latin)

This isn't supposed to work: 'bdf-font-except-latin is for Latin-1
characters, not for Latin-9.  But if your printer has Latin-9 fonts,
you could use 'bdf-font-except-latin if you modify
ps-mule-font-info-database-latin to handle Latin-9 instead of Latin-1.

Anyway, the original issue was this:

> On Fri, Jan 06 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Your message to which I replied made it sound like Emacs PostScript
> > printing is broken for anything but Latin-1.  Which is clearly not
> > true.  All one needs is download and install the GNU Intlfonts
> > package and customize a few variables as documented in ps-mule.el.

So, even if Latin-9 is not supported because Intlfonts doesn't have a
font for it, it doesn't mean only Latin-1 is supported.  Try printing
Latin-2, Latin-3, Cyrillic, Thai, Japanese, etc.