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Chapter 31: Miscellaneous Commands 671 the printer. With a prefix argument (C-u), it prompts for a file name, and saves the spooled PostScript image in that file instead of sending it to the printer. M-x handwrite is more frivolous. It generates a PostScript rendition of the current buffer as a cursive handwritten document. It can be customized in group handwrite. This function only supports ISO 8859-1 characters. 31.5.2 Variables for PostScript Hardcopy All the PostScript hardcopy commands use the variables ps-lpr-command and ps-lprswitches to specify how to print the output. ps-lpr-command specifies the command name to run, ps-lpr-switches specifies command line options to use, and ps-printername specifies the printer. If you don’t set the first two variables yourself, they take their initial values from lpr-command and lpr-switches. If ps-printer-name is nil, printername is used. The variable ps-print-header controls whether these commands add header lines to each page—set it to nil to turn headers off. If your printer doesn’t support colors, you should turn off color processing by setting ps-print-color-p to nil. By default, if the display supports colors, Emacs produces hardcopy output with color information; on black-and-white printers, colors are emulated with shades of gray. This might produce illegible output, even if your screen colors only use shades of gray. Alternatively, you can set ps-print-color-p to black-white to print colors on black/white printers. By default, PostScript printing ignores the background colors of the faces, unless the variable ps-use-face-background is non-nil. This is to avoid unwanted interference with the zebra stripes and background image/text. The variable ps-paper-type specifies which size of paper to format for; legitimate values include a4, a3, a4small, b4, b5, executive, ledger, legal, letter, letter-small, statement, tabloid. The default is letter. You can define additional paper sizes by changing the variable ps-page-dimensions-database. The variable ps-landscape-mode specifies the orientation of printing on the page. The default is nil, which stands for “portrait” mode. Any non-nil value specifies “landscape” mode. The variable ps-number-of-columns specifies the number of columns; it takes effect in both landscape and portrait mode. The default is 1. The variable ps-font-family specifies which font family to use for printing ordinary text. Legitimate values include Courier, Helvetica, NewCenturySchlbk, Palatino and Times. The variable ps-font-size specifies the size of the font for ordinary text. It defaults to 8.5 points. Emacs supports more scripts and characters than a typical PostScript printer. Thus, some of the characters in your buffer might not be printable using the fonts built into your printer. You can augment the fonts supplied with the printer with those from the GNU Intlfonts package, or you can instruct Emacs to use Intlfonts exclusively. The variable psmultibyte-buffer controls this: the default value, nil, is appropriate for printing ASCII and Latin-1 characters; a value of non-latin-printer is for printers which have the fonts
