From: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdf or ps from emacs syntax highlighted source code
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:42:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HkWi3-000070-MS@sycore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1588EA99-25E4-4150-9AE8-35A4239B4469@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sat\, 5 May 2007 10\:46\:12 +0200")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 05.05.2007 um 03:33 schrieb Alexey Pustyntsev:
>
>> Would you please briefly explain to me (or post a decent link where
>> it's been clarified) why printing the non-latin characters is said to
>> be impossible in Emacs without htmlizing the buffer?
>
> Citing myself from six weeks ago:
>
> The problem with PostScript is that it usually only supports 8 bit
> encodings. So you can't print Unicode. You can try to find a CID
> keyed PostScript font and with some effort you can print CJK. No such
> font is available for free or public domain. TrueType and OpenType
> fonts have better Unicode support. Modern PostScript can use such
> TrueType fonts, which are quite often free and acceptable quality.
> But I have no idea how to create a mapping from an UTF-8 encoded text
> to a Unicode encoded font in PostScript.
>
> Another problem is that GNU Emacs' PS print facility does not support
> non-Latin scripts. It actually only supports ISO 8859-1 and it
> reports that characters outside this encoding exist in the region or
> buffer you want to print.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
Thank you very much, Pete. I understand the problem now.
--
Rgds
Alexey
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.151.1178150118.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-03 0:31 ` pdf or ps from emacs syntax highlighted source code Joost Kremers
2007-05-03 20:41 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-05-04 8:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-05-04 9:33 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.219.1178268675.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-04 12:17 ` Hadron
2007-05-04 13:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-04 23:19 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-05-05 1:33 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2007-05-05 8:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-05-06 2:42 ` Alexey Pustyntsev [this message]
2007-05-02 23:48 Bauke Jan Douma
2007-05-03 3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-03 20:40 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-05-03 20:44 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.153.1178162282.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-03 10:13 ` Hadron
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