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Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file
From: |
Rodolfo Medina |
Subject: |
Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:36 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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?
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> The real answer for how to obtain ps or pdf from text supporting all of
> unicode is to use libraries like cairo and pango. Cairo knows how to
> embed all of the typical outline fonts in both ps and pdf, and pango can
> handle formatting the plain text for even complex scripts like Arabic
> or Tibetan.
>
> Emacs will eventually have such support (when compiled with m17n and
> libotf), but it does not yet. Until then, a bit of elisp can output a
> given buffer to a script in eg perl or python -- or a compiled C, C++
> or similar program -- which uses pangocairo to create a ps or pdf file
> to submit to lp or lpr. (call-process-region) is the elisp function to
> call, using (point-min) and (point-max) as the first two args, to send
> the buffer's contents to the external program or script.
>
> You could also try going through CJKlatex, or if in a gui saving the
> buffer and using something like gedit or firefox to view the file; both
> of those (if using the current versions) use pango and cairo to output
> ps or pdf for printing.
>
> If you want to do it directly from emacs, you will need to write some
> code. If you don't mind using another gui program, reasonably current
> versions of web browsers and the default gnome/kde text editors should
> as well. (The latter may be painful for editing, but you'd only need
> to load the file and select print from the menu....)
Well, since I'm not able to write any code, I only have to wait for Emacs to
have the support you mention...
Rodolfo
- Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, Rodolfo Medina, 2008/12/20
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- Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, Rodolfo Medina, 2008/12/21
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- Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, Rodolfo Medina, 2008/12/21
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- Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, Rodolfo Medina, 2008/12/22
- Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, Peter Dyballa, 2008/12/22
- Re: Chinese characters missing in .ps output file, James Cloos, 2008/12/23
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