From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:41:34 +0100 Message-ID: <43BD3E2E.50402@student.lu.se> References: <534d19de0601031634o49dfd53dl7d701ff6512900f9@mail.gmail.com> <6FC795CC-C015-4A12-81DF-15E01A9E9EDA@Web.DE> <534d19de0601041756x783e8094v1f0397efaa7a6662@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136484147 25118 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 18:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 19:02:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuZRB-0000Ah-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:02:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuZSv-000569-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuXH1-0002CF-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuXGx-0002BV-G4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuXGw-0002BO-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EuXIX-00050X-Mz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43ABF6D500324E1A; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:41:34 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Peter Dyballa In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32452 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > The problem is encoding of the PostScript fonts used to set the > document. ps-print.el uses ISO 8859-1, independent from the buffer > contents' encoding. If you have a buffer contents that uses more than > 192 different characters (256 less two times 32 control characters, 7 > bit and 8 bit), you need to provide special PostScript fonts that > encode so many characters (CID coded fonts for CJK use), or use the > same font with different encodings to have Latin plus some extended > Latin (a technique that's used in TeX). It is not clear to me whether you mean that this is a bug in ps-print.el or that it is a limitation in the current handling of fonts in PostScript. I am sorry that I do not understand this yet, but can you explain the status of this again?