Re: About the font used by 'ps-spool-buffer-with-faces'

Angelo Graziosi <[email protected]> writes:

> Il 24/12/2024 08:02, Joel Reicher ha scritto:
>> Angelo Graziosi <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Suppose I set as default font (Options - Set Default Font)=20
>>> "Lucida console". The buffers are rendered in this new=20
>>> font. Then I do
>>>
>>> =C2=A0 M-x ps-spool-buffer-with-faces
>>>
>>> for the current buffer and save the Postscript buffer in a=20
>>> file, say foo.ps. Finally I convert this Postscript in PDF=20
>>> (ps2pdf).
>>>
>>> The PDF is not rendere with Lucida console but, if I read=20
>>> corectly, with Courier New.
>>>
>>> Is this to be expected. How can I have a PDF with the font I=20
>>> have set as default in Emacs?
>> How does the PS display? It's possible the problem is=20
>> introduced by ps2pdf.
>
> No, I just discovered that 'ps-font-family' is 'Courier', and it=20
> seems that things cannot change much. See for example:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software//emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/PostScript-Var=
iables.html

"Legitimate values include =E2=80=98Courier=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98Helvetica=E2=
=80=99,=20
=E2=80=98NewCenturySchlbk=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98Palatino=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=
=98Times=E2=80=99."

Wow. So basically `ps-spool-buffer-with-faces' does not quite do=20
what is says on the tin?

Perhaps the documentation should be modified?

Regards,

        - Joel