Re: [Patch] Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:02:03 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Printers use "postscriptname" defined in a font file while searching for 
> fonts. psname.txt provides a sample
> of how to read that information from a font backend. It is not mandatory - 
> but its presence will prevent nasty
> surprises. In its absence, Lisp code uses font file base name. If the file 
> name doesn't match
> postscriptname, printing might fail - "might" because printer will try its 
> best to substitute a suitable font.
> Theoretically, there's no dependency except Ghostscript which does most of 
> the heavy lifting for printing in
> Emacs. Fonts other than Truetype might require additional configuration as 
> defined in Ghostscript manual.

Could you please point to the code which uses or requires Ghostscript,
I don't think I see it in the patch you sent.  And since you seem to
be using the HarfBuzz rendering, why do we need Ghostscript at all?

Thanks.