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23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

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Message #20 received at 2374 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
To: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl <at> ig.com.br>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 2374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face
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,
--
David Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://boostpro.com

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