Re: print with DejaVu font from emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.11.2009 um 17:12 schrieb harven:

> Thanks for your reply.
> Instead of converting to html, I think I will just open the file in  
> the
> browser and print from there. DejaVu is also used as the default  
> monospace
> in my browser.

That's exactly what htmlize.el and htmlize-view.el do: they prepare  
an Unicode encoded buffer easily as HTML which is then "sent" to an  
external HTML viewer (a so-called "browser") which can use the OS'  
desktop mechanisms to print that Unicode contents as PDF Unicode.

> I am a bit surprised by your comment on postscript not supporting  
> unicode.


PostScript is 8 bit! It might be elder then you. PostScript fonts can  
larger, maybe contain 1,000 glyphs. These are accessed by an  
encoding, which is 8 bit. TeX, a bit elder then PS, is essentially 7  
bit. The trick of a "virtual font," something like a "fontset" in  
GNU Emacs, allows it to access two 7-bit encoded fonts as if it were  
one 8-bit font. Similarly by using a whole stack of encodings TeX is  
able to access some percent of Unicode. Particular mechanisms in TeX  
and in PostScript allow to print in CJK.


BTW, I am not that sure that your GNOME desktop creates PostScript  
files! (It would necessitate CID fonts.) You can easily check this by  
disabling the printer queue. Then any print output is queued in but  
not sent to the printer. So you have (almost) infinite time to locate  
the queue's content and check the files' type – possibly with super- 
user privileges. And I am sure you'll find PDF...

--
Greetings

  Pete

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