Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

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> 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?