On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
I can reproduce the problem here (osx 10.6) using whatever the default font settings are (since I haven't changed them)- if I use emacs/aquamacs ps-spool-* functions and apple's pstopdf then I get a pdf with no (visible) text. Its not clear (to me) who's at fault- but the likelihood of apple patching their pstopdf is v.v.small- besides there are lots of tools which do the same job (like enscript) and work perfectly well on osx- so your best bet is to ask the emacs guys to fix their psprint code to work with osx. By the way, Aquamacs has another way to print 'M-x aquamacs-print' which uses another method and brings up the apple print dialog so you can 'Save to PDF'. Use this, or ghostscript to produce your pdf's if the other ways don't work. regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
