Localization Printing Support Under the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

The Solaris environment provides support for PostScript printers. Custom print filters are available to convert localized text to PostScript. Seemp(1) anasipostprint(1) man pages for further details. Fonts can also be downloaded onto a printer.

For more details, see the download(1) man pages. This support is configured for PostScript printers.

The Solaris 8 environment has a unified printing filter that replaces all the locale-specific filters described below. This section describes this filter and which scripts are supported in each locale Sun supports.

This filter uses font glyphs from printer-resident fonts and TrueType fonts in the Solaris operating environment; PCF bitmap fonts in the Solaris system depend on the configuration information defined for each locale. For more information on PCF (Portable Compiled Format), see man pages bdftosnf(1) and bdftopcf(1).