Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:49:39 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: groff && UTF-8 Message-ID: <20110718104939.GA32254@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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Hello, In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. I've now a project where it would fit really nicely. It's making (Postscript or PCL) printout of some pages like this example one: http://www.unixarea.de/MagazinZettel.pdf in which most of the part is just plain text, printed in some fixed font, a few big letters (big font) and some OCR-B on the page (like the number 0000471110 in the mentioned page). The critical part seems to be: the text is UTF-8 and converting this to ISO 8859-1 is not an option. It's a Library Management System we just ported to Unicode, and we don't want to fall back in printing :-) I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to understand only making UTF-8 output with its driver -Tutf8. Is there a way to make it understand UTF-8 as input and making PCL or Postscript of it (like CUPS which has a filter 'texttops' which together with the FreeFonts can make Postscript of UTF-8 text)? Any other ideas? OCR-B is another issue, perhaps. But it seems that there are at least free fonts available for it in Postscript... Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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