Re: print with DejaVu font from emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 09.11.2009 um 16:38 schrieb harven:

> I recently switched to emacs23.1.1 and the unicode support is great.
> I use the default DejaVuSansMono font in emacs, but when I try to do
> a ps-print-buffer or ps-spool-buffer, it uses the Courier font.
> Thus the result is disappointing because Courier does not support
> a lot of unicode characters.

In Unicode forget ps-print-<whatever>! PostScript only handles  
encodings of 256 elements (and with some difficulty also CJK fonts  
with thousands of code points). What you need is a conversion from  
text to Unicode encoded HTML which then can easily be handled by your  
OS or desktop.

Htmlize.el by Hrvoje Nikšić: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/ 
htmlize.el. A sample of its capabilities can be seen here: http:// 
fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el.html – missing some CJK and  
other non-Latin content. Lennart Borgman's htmlize-view.el helps a  
bit to handle printing (http://piprim.tuxfamily.org/home/pi/emacs.d/ 
site-lisp/htmlize-view.el).

So using DejaVu in the buffer will produce HTML output using the same  
fonts which then can be converted to PDF for the purpose of printing,  
still using DejaVu.

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   Pete

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