Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:06:15 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port for redirecting printer Message-ID: <20130228110614.GA1592@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <512EFA34.3080004@bananmonarki.se> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261814330.27474@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226180645.GA1161@tiny.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261929020.27796@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130227115646.GA1821@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130228060342.GA2462@tinyCurrent> <512EFA34.3080004@bananmonarki.se>
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El día Thursday, February 28, 2013 a las 07:33:24AM +0100, Bernt Hansson escribió: > 2013-02-28 07:03, Matthias Apitz skrev: > > El día Wednesday, February 27, 2013 a las 12:56:47PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > > > >> another issue, how do you print an UTF-8 encoded text file, containing > >> for example Hebrew and Greek? With CUPS' lpr(1) you just say: > >> > >> $ lpr -Pfoo myfile.txt > > > > And now? Big silence? Nobody wants to step-up with a proposal? :-) > > You have already proposed the correct answer. > > > /usr/bin/lpr -Pbar file instead of your cups /usr/local/bin/lpr Here is what you could do to render UTF-8 text files to Postscript (for printing it with the normal lpr(1) / lpd(8) chain: $ CHARSET=utf-8; export CHARSET $ PPD=any-ppd-file.ppd; export PPD $ texttops 1 rleigh myfile 1 "" file.utf8 > file.ps $ /usr/bin/lpr -Pbar file.ps 'texttops' is from CUPS and ofc makes use of fonts etc. from the CUPS distribution; but you do not have to configure anything in CUPS to make 'texttops' working; maybe there are other such tools and fonts; Pango+Cairo for example... matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards
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