From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:18:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prjl895u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3207.1229891161.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The
> characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create
> the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x
> pr-ps-print-buffer-print', they are not displayed.
>
> What am I missing, how can I work it out?
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> You are missing CID mapped PostScript fonts or a means to teach GNU Emacs to
> use TrueType or OpenType fonts instead.
>
> Remember: a PostScript font can have thousands or millions of glyphs, but its
> encoding can only be 256 elements. It took years until PostScript was
> expanded
> to support CJK scripts.
>
>
> Instead try 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).
Am 21.12.2008 um 21:30 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:
>> With `http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el' I can convert the text
>> file into html format. But, I still can't print it.
No, it was my printer having problems. Now I can print the html file fine!
> Can't you tell your browser to print the HTML version or save it as PDF?
Now I can print the HTML version. As to save it as PDF, my Mozilla version
does not seem to be able to. What browser do you know can do it?
> The other question is: did you understand what I wrote about PostScript
> fonts? If so, can you explain why it's not so easy to print a PostScript
> file with CJK content?
Well, in fact no, I didn't understand what you wrote about PS fonts. How can
obtain a .ps file from a text file including chinese characters?
Bare with my ignorance, thanks indeed
Rodolfo
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 15:49 Chinese characters missing in .ps output file Rodolfo Medina
2008-12-20 16:21 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3168.1229790102.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-21 20:30 ` Rodolfo Medina
2008-12-21 20:25 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3207.1229891161.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-21 22:18 ` Rodolfo Medina [this message]
2008-12-21 22:20 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3210.1229898011.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-22 15:41 ` Rodolfo Medina
2008-12-22 20:22 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-12-23 22:22 ` James Cloos
[not found] ` <mailman.3297.1230070986.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-24 19:15 ` Rodolfo Medina
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