From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: PostScript printing Latin-N (with N != 1)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:09:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9hd88njgf.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: upsmwsg3i.fsf@gnu.org
On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
[...]
>> I meant two different buffers. One containing _only_ Latin-1, the
>> other _only_ Latin-9 characters.
>
> In that case, it might be something in how you set up the ps-mule
> database. Perhaps it doesn't support more than one Latin-n set, I
> never tried to do something like that myself, I only ever set it for a
> single Latin character set.
I just tried what Handa suggested. (See the URL I gave.)
>> >> Printing the same file (with the Euro) encoded in UTF-8 fails with:
>> >> "bdf-read-font-info: BDF file etl24-unicode.bdf doesn't exist"
>> >
>> > Well, it's quite clear what it tells you, yes?
>>
>> Sure, but I couldn't find this file neither in SuSE 9.2 or 10.0 nor on
>> a Debian GNU/Linux box. Unless most of the major GNU/Linux
>> distributions include the required BDF fonts, using `bdf-font' is not
>> a feasible solution for end users.
>
> Here again you are too eager to generalize, I think: a single font is
> missing, and already this is ``not a feasible solution''. Given that
> the current Emacs doesn't even support Unicode reasonably enough,
Do you mean Emacs 21 or Emacs 22?
> isn't it a tad too much to reject a package that covers most other
> character sets?
Eli, I don't reject the package. I don't have any reason not to trust
you when you say that it works for most languages. I don't want to
generalize, I'm only saying that it doesn't work for me in the very
specific test cases that I have tried.
Personally, I don't mind if I get a hollow square instead or I'll use
enscript or something else if I really want to see glyph. I'm
thinking of users who will (once Emacs 22 is released) ask questions
like "How do I print text files containing the €uro sign in Emacs?".
Telling the user to install the "intlfonts-bdf" package an set a few
is okay. But I can't find "etl24-unicode.bdf" (nor a BDF font for
Latin-9) neither in GNU/Linux distributions nor with Google. IMHO,
most user would give up already if it doesn't work out-of-the-box. Or
they will go for workaround like htmlize.el + printing from the
browser.
>> >> Printing the Thai example text from HELLO produces a PS file, but gs
>> >> can't display the PS file (as in my previous mail):
>> >
>> > So gs also has problems, or so it seems.
>>
>> Possible. Or the created PS file is invalid.
>
> I have a PostScript printer. If you really want to know which one of
> these possibilities is true, send me the PS file and I will look.
Sending it to a HP 4100 PostScript Printer (with "lpr -oraw") results
in no output on the printer (the display switches to "Processing job"
for a moment). Printing a simple plain text with "lpr -oraw" works.
Here is the text file including the setup starting from "emacs -Q":
http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/Thai-From-HELLO.gz
Here's the PostScript file:
http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/ps-mule-bdf-Thai-From-HELLO.ps.gz
(gzipped to avoid possible corruption)
(I can also send them to you by mail if you don't have web access.)
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 0:34 Printing from WindowXP version of emacs BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-04 10:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-05 1:56 ` BRUCE INGALLS
2006-01-05 13:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-05 15:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-05 21:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 21:18 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-06 11:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-06 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-10 17:37 ` PostScript printing Latin-N (with N != 1) (was: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs) Reiner Steib
2006-01-10 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-11 15:55 ` PostScript printing Latin-N (with N != 1) Reiner Steib
2006-01-11 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 20:35 ` Reiner Steib
2006-01-13 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 17:09 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2006-01-11 21:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-01-05 16:05 ` translation software (was: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs) Reiner Steib
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