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23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face

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From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl <at> ig.com.br>
To: David Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 2374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2374: 23.0.60; Printing doesn't use face
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:56:50 -0300

David Abrahams wrote:
>
> 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?


Yes, for sure.

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