Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters.  The
> characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create
> the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x
> pr-ps-print-buffer-print', they are not displayed.
>
> What am I missing, how can I work it out?


Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> You are missing CID mapped PostScript fonts or a means to teach GNU Emacs to
> use TrueType or OpenType fonts instead.
>
> Remember: a PostScript font can have thousands or millions of glyphs, but its
> encoding can only be 256 elements. It took years until  PostScript was
> expanded 
> to support CJK scripts.
>
>
> Instead try htmlize.el by Hrvoje Nikšić: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/
> ~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el. A sample of its capabilities can be seen here:
> http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el.html – missing  some CJK and
> other non-Latin content. Lennart Borgman's htmlize- 
> view.el helps a bit to handle printing (http://piprim.tuxfamily.org/
> home/pi/emacs.d/site-lisp/htmlize-view.el).


Am 21.12.2008 um 21:30 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:

>> With `http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el' I can convert the text
>> file into html format.  But, I still can't print it.


No, it was my printer having problems.  Now I can print the html file fine!


> Can't you tell your browser to print the HTML version or save it as PDF?


Now I can print the HTML version.  As to save it as PDF, my Mozilla version
does not seem to be able to.  What browser do you know can do it?


> The other question is: did you understand what I wrote about PostScript
> fonts?  If so, can you explain why it's not so easy to print a PostScript
> file with CJK content?


Well, in fact no, I didn't understand what you wrote about PS fonts.  How can
obtain a .ps file from a text file including chinese characters?

Bare with my ignorance, thanks indeed
Rodolfo