Printing Facilities

The Solaris environment provides the following support for Korean printing:

• A line printer with built-in fonts that enables you to use lp and iconv utilities to print any text file encoded in wansung, johab, and unicode for example. Your system administrator can also set up print filters to automatically convert input from EUC to the codeset of the targeted printer.

• Postscript-based line printer emulation that provides the xetops and xutops utilities that convert Korean text to bit-mapped images for printing. These utilities enable you to print Korean characters using a Postscript-based printer that does not have Korean fonts loaded. Some applications generate Postscript files with embedded Korean fonts. For example, you can print Postscript CID fonts to any Postscript level 3 printer without modification to the operating system.

• The mp program reads each filename in sequence and generates a graphical representation of the content in PostScript format. The program accepts international text files of various Solaris locales and produces output which is appropriate for the specified locale. The output can contain proper text layout, bidirectional text rendering, and character shaping. Depending on each locale's system font configuration for mp, the PostScript output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts.

  Complex text layout (CTL) is supported in mp. For more information about Complex Text Layout, see the chapter "Complex Text Layout" in International Language Environments Guide.

• An Xprt facility that enables developers of X-windows applications to create device-independent print jobs.

• A font downloader command, fdl, that enables you to install and remove supported fonts from Postscript printers. The supported font types include: Postscript Types 1, 9 (CID Type 0), 10 (CID type 1), 11 (CID type 2), CMap files, and TrueType.