From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:17:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <534d19de0601031634o49dfd53dl7d701ff6512900f9@mail.gmail.com> <6FC795CC-C015-4A12-81DF-15E01A9E9EDA@Web.DE> <534d19de0601041756x783e8094v1f0397efaa7a6662@mail.gmail.com> <43BD3E2E.50402@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136495993 5872 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 21:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:19:53 +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 22:19:53 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 1EucW8-0001SZ-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucXt-0006e7-01 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:21:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EucVz-0005t3-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EucVw-0005pi-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucVv-0005pQ-UC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EucXZ-0002OT-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.245.191.116] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #340) id 1EucU8-0007fu-00; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:17:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <43BD3E2E.50402@student.lu.se> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Lennart Borgman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:32464 Archived-At: Am 05.01.2006 um 16:41 schrieb Lennart Borgman: > Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> The problem is encoding of the PostScript fonts =20 >> used to set the document. ps-print.el uses ISO 8859-1, =20 >> independent from the buffer contents' encoding. If you have a =20 >> buffer contents that uses more than 192 different characters (256 =20= >> less two times 32 control characters, 7 bit and 8 bit), you need =20 >> to provide special PostScript fonts that encode so many =20 >> characters (CID coded fonts for CJK use), or use the same font =20 >> with different encodings to have Latin plus some extended Latin =20 >> (a technique that's used in TeX). > > It is not clear to me whether you mean that this is a bug in ps-=20 > print.el or that it is a limitation in the current handling of =20 > fonts in PostScript. I am sorry that I do not understand this yet, =20 > but can you explain the status of this again? It is both! ps-print.el destroys the original encoding, and PS =20 usually handles font encodings with up to 256 mappings. (And ps-=20 print.el has no code to handle CID encoded fonts with up to 64 K =20 mappings.) -- Greetings Pete (: _ / __ - - _/ \__/_/ - - (=B4`) (=B4`) - - `=B4 `=B4