Re: ps-print-buffer-with-faces chokes on face attribute property lists

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

Hi Nikolaj,


Sorry for the delay.  I've just fixed this problem in Emacs CVS trunk, 
emacs-unicode and EMACS-22-BRANCH.


Thanks for your report,


Vinicius



Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this bug was reported to me, but I think ps-print is at fault.
>
> When printing a buffer with overlays that specify the 'face property
> using a property list, `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' fails.
>
>
> For instance, the following snippet will throw an error.
>
> (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) nil)))
>   (overlay-put ov 'face '(:foreground "gray"))
>   (ps-print-buffer-with-faces))
>
>
> The reason appears to be `ps-face-attribute-list':
>
> (ps-face-attribute-list '(foreground-color . "gray"))  ; ok
> (ps-face-attribute-list '(:foreground "gray"))         ; fails
>
>
>
> The original report:
>
>   
> > Hi Nikolaj,
> >
> >
> > Symptoms:
> > ps-print-buffer-with-faces returns an error if
> > highlight-parentheses-mode is enabled and point is located inside a pair
> > of parentheses.  Mini-buffer contains the following error message:
> >
> > ps-face-attribute-list: Wrong type argument: listp, "firebrick1"
> >
> >
> > Recipe:
> > 1.  emacs -q
> > 2.  M-x load-file highlight-parentheses.el RET
> > 3.  M-x highlight-parentheses-mode RET
> > 4.  Now, type: (abc)
> > 5.  C-b
> > 6.  M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces
> >
> >
> > I'm using highlight-parentheses v1.0 with Emacs 22.1:
> >
> >     
> > > In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> > >  of 2007-07-07 on NEUTRINO
> > > Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> > > configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags 
> > > -Ic:/Programme/GnuWin32/include'
> > >       
> > Thanks,
> > Stephan Hennig
> >     
>
> The package in question can be found at
> http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-parentheses/
>
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>