Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:06:55 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200506120655.20c05800cda62c3887c0f4f9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200506103026.GA74014@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505161952.GA34844@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505185510.00b622e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505202242.c16f07feef5674fc7b6e6fe9@sohara.org> <20200506015935.GA56526@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200506071659.8730d1d68f9d47e4407790f3@sohara.org> <20200506102943.6f68ea4859f8de9661e25895@sohara.org> <20200506103620.f23dcb43f26697795686ee18@sohara.org> <20200506103026.GA74014@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 17:30:26 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote: > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > Self-talking - it's also in the freefont-ttf package - but > > installing that didn't help. > > I'm following with attention! My Linux CUPS installation prints UTF-8 text pretty well (the Thai Braille and Amharic and the final Hello World failed on the classic UTF-8 test text), it has the FreeMono fonts embedded in the CUPS directories. > As it turned out that I now have a PostScript-only printer, I need to > convert text to PostScript, I wish you all success! It looks like CUPS works by using an internal texttopdf converter and feeding to to pdftops. Installing cups-filters (quite a small package) makes this work cupsfilter Documents/UTF-8-demo.txt > t.ps The resultant file views and prints fine. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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