FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

[Matthias Apitz]

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

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