From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 11:06:21 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD79FBC3 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:06:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3711B5A for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.204.153.164] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UB1Ja-0005cM-Ap for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:06:18 +0100 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r1SB6Gfo001626 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:06:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r1SB6Fqj001625 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:06:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:06:15 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port for redirecting printer Message-ID: <20130228110614.GA1592@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20130226180645.GA1161@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130227115646.GA1821@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130228060342.GA2462@tinyCurrent> <512EFA34.3080004@bananmonarki.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <512EFA34.3080004@bananmonarki.se> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r226986 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 89.204.153.164 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:06:21 -0000 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