Re: ps-print question

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.12.2010 um 15:02 schrieb David Penton:

> The variable ps-font-family specifies which font family to use for  
> printing ordinary text. Legitimate values include Courier,          
> Helvetica,NewCenturySchlbk, Palatino and Times.

If your printer or Ghostscript has built-in or knows more (Ghostscript  
has a file like Fontmap.local or Fontmap.gs) fonts, you can use them.

The restriction to the cited names is based on the fact that a few  
font families are always supported by PostScript (or PDF). Therefore  
these fonts do not need to be embedded into the PostScript (or PDF)  
file, it's sufficient to just reference them. This is also then  
sufficient when Ghostscript converts the PS output from Emacs into a  
raster data stream which is then sent to your printer, so that it uses  
the vector fonts it finds on disk.

This could fail with CUPS. (And I haven't checked how CUPS can be  
configured to use additional PostScript or TrueType fonts on disk.)

> There is mention of using BDF fonts for foreign languages, but I am  
> not sure that is the answer. Also, I am puzzled because I thought  
> Courier had a grave accent anyway.


It has, of course! You can compare all the backquotes in Character  
Palette. And: Forget BDF!


You have more options when you use htmlize (it understands customised  
font faces) and then print off the internet browser (htmlize-view.el  
does that "data transfer"). Mac OS X then should be able to render the  
pages with any font it knows and is on disk.

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  Pete

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