European Printing Support

For European locales based on character sets that are not ISO-8859, such as Greek and Russian, prolog.ps files are supplied. The files are located in /usr/openwin/lib/locale/print.

When you print in one of these locales, the files are automatically downloaded to the printer. These fonts are PostScript Type 1 and include Times, Helvetica, and Courier.

These are in normal, bold, italic, and bold--italic styles.

This allows printing on PostScript printers from both CDE and OpenWindows desktops. From a command line, use /usr/openwin/bin/mp <filename> | lp in each locale that is not based on ISO 8859-1 character sets.

For the Eastern European locales such as Russian, non-iso-8859-1 encoded, prolog.ps files are supplied. The files are located in:

/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale/directories/print/prolog.ps

for each relevant locale. At directories, insert one of the following:

/iso8859-2/

/iso8859-4/

/iso8859-5/

/iso8859-7/

/iso8859-9/

/iso8859-10/

The files are downloaded automatically when you print in one of the Eastern European locales. A minimum set of fonts allow printing.

The fonts in the prolog.ps files are defined in the following table.

/LC_Courier

/LC_Courier-Italic

/LC_Courier-Bold

/LC_Courier-BoldOblique

CourierCyr AliasFont

CourierCyr Inclined AliasFont

CourierCyr Bold AliasFont

CourierCyr BoldInclined AliasFont

/LC_Times-Roman

/LC_Times-Italic

/LC_Times-Bold

/LC_Times-BoldOblique

TimesNewRomanCyr

TimesNewRomanCyr-Inclined Aliasfont

TimesNewRomanCyr-Bold AliasFont

TimesNewRomanCyr-BoldIncl AliasFont

/LC_Helvetica

/LC_Helvetica-Italic

/LC_Helvetica-Bold

/LC_Helvetica-BoldOblique

LucidaSansCyr AliasFont

LucidaSansCyr ItalicFont

LucidaSansCyr-Bold AliasFont

LucidaSansCyr-BoldItalic AliasFont

Table 8-1 is an example of the ISO8859-5 locale. The actual prolog.ps will vary depending on the locale.