Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 05.01.2006 um 16:41 schrieb Lennart Borgman:

> 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?

It is both! ps-print.el destroys the original encoding, and PS  
usually handles font encodings with up to 256 mappings. (And ps- 
print.el has no code to handle CID encoded fonts with up to 64 K  
mappings.)

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