Subject: bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

From: David Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:32:38 -0400

On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>
> Sorry for the very long delay, I'm very short in time these days.
>
> Well, printing package uses ps-print package to generate a  
> PostScript file to be printed.
>
> And ps-print does not deal with all face attributes. At present  
> moment only the following face attributes are used by ps-print:  
> bold, italic, underline, background color and foreground color.
>
> The variable ps-font-family specifies the font used by all ordinary  
> text to be generated.  The default is 'Courier.
>
> When ps-print was created (1993), there weren't face attributes like  
> font family, width and height.
>
> So, I don't think this is a bug, but a missing feature.
>

Great; thanks.  So could you consider my report a feature request?

Cheers,
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David Abrahams
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