On Feb 19, 2010, at 15:28, Marc H. Scholl wrote:

> 
> On 19.02.2010, at 14:37h, t wrote (with possible deletions):
> 
>> [...]
> 
>> Yes- I suspect it wont do any good either. You might be better filing
>> a bug report against emacs- I would guess the issue is something to do
>> with fonts where the apple system is a bit different to ghostscript-
>> perhaps the emacs guys can easily fix it to work on osx?
>> 
>> regards
> 
> 
> ... actually a very good comment, especially, since the original post was 
> talking about *Aquamacs*, a Mac-only version of emacs. It should be a peace 
> of cake for them to make the ps-print suitable for preview/skim.
> 
>       --Marc

Aquamacs already does this. In fact, it does not expose the PS print functions, 
but instead a print function that sends PDF  for printing to Preview. 

BTW, I cannot reproduce it. When I try something like ps-spool-buffer, I have 
no problems with the generated PS. But perhaps when you're using non-standard 
fonts, I can imagine that this indeed is a problem. When fonts are not included 
in the PS (and it seems that the ps-print-... and ps-spool-... functions indeed 
don't include them), then the PS is not guaranteed to be readable, and I can 
imagine that Apple's CoreGraphics conversion API (which is what Skim and almost 
certainly Preview and the pstopdf CLT use) cannot find some non-standard fonts. 
I don't think that would qualify of a bug of either tools, but I would rather 
blame the PS generator than Apple. I don't know if fonts is the problem, but I 
cannot imagine it's in the PS that's used itself, because the PS syntax is 
pretty much fixed (unlike PDF, which keeps being messed with by Adobe, and is 
much more messy than PS as a result).

Christiaan


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