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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:19:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net>
Subject:   Re: Printing cyrillic chars
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010823161925.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010823160508.mj@isy.liu.se>

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On 23-Aug-01 Micke Josefsson wrote:
> 
> On 23-Aug-01 Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
>> You need to substitute the postscript fonts with the Russian ones. Download 
>> the fonts using russian/koi8r-ps in ports if you don't have them yet.
>> 
>> In order to make the printer always print using these fonts, you may want to 
>> delete the old fonts and edit the aliases file to alias Times->TimesNRCyrMT, 
>> etc.
>> 
>> However, this is not nice; if you only need to print Russian occasionally, 
>> run your document through a sed script like this:
>> 
>> 
>>#!/bin/sh
>>  sed "s/Times-Roman/TimesNRCyrMT/g; \
>> s/Times-Bold/TimesNRCyrMT-Bold/g;\
>> s/Times-Italic/TimesNRCyrMT-Italic/g; \
>> s/Courier/CourierCyrPS/g;\
>> s/Helvetica/ArialCyrMT/g;" 
>> ...
>> 
>> use 
>> 
>> cat yourfile.ps | the_script | lpr
>> 
>> If you often print russian, you can make a print filter apply the script 
>> before sending the file to print. 
>> 
>> Good luck.
> 
> OK, have done that. Now the pages look nice when in ghostscript but they are
> still "encrypted" when printed. I have tried two different printers HP 4500
> and
> HP 8500.
> 
> Any tips?

Ah! Found it! 

gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=tmp.ps netscape.ps

did the trick. However tmp.ps is not viewable in ghostview, but it really does
print OK.

Thanks.

/Micke





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