Carbon Emacs can't print text background colors?

Carbon Emacs can't print text background colors?

[Scott Heftler]

I'm using Carbon Emacs 22.2.1 on MacBook Pro "25 running OS X 10.5.2. 
My printer is a HP Deskjet F4180.

I cannot print background colors.  The foreground color of the text
prints fine.  But the background color of the text never prints.

Here's how to reproduce:

1. Apply a face that inludes a background color, such as `isearch', to
   some text.  Select some text, do `M-o O isearch <RET>'.  Now that
   text has a background.

2. Then set `ps-use-face-background to t' by doing `M-: (setq
   ps-use-face-background t) <RET>'.

3. Now you're ready to print, via `ps-print-buffer-with-faces'.

You get the foreground text properly printed.  The background is all
white.

Any advice?

-- 
Scott Heftler
 psyche@mail.utexas.edu
 Man muß mit den Wölfen heulen.

Re: Carbon Emacs can't print text background colors?

[Peter Dyballa]

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Am 03.06.2008 um 22:34 schrieb Scott Heftler:

> I cannot print background colors.  The foreground color of the text
> prints fine.  But the background color of the text never prints.
>


Since I can, I advise to use the ps-spool functions (same name, with  
word "print" substituted with "spool") to print to a buffer  
*PostScript* (instead to the printing sub-system) which you then can  
save to a regular PostScript file. Either a PostScript viewer (gv and  
Ghostscript) or Preview (which converts PS to PDF) might show what  
your HP printer can't print. Then it's either a Mac OS X 10.5.2 bug  
(10.5.3 update is out) or one in HP printer driver or one you created  
when you "installed" the printer in Mac OS X.


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BTW, there is a specialised list for Carbon Emacs users:

	--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
	Carbon Emacs User Group
	http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en
	-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

And another one:

	_____________________________________________________________
	MacOSX-Emacs mailing list
	MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu
	http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-emacs
	List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx

which will also serve for the users of Emacs.app, the coming native  
GNU Emacs 23.1 implementation.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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