Chapter 3 Setting Up Simplified Chinese Solaris Printing Facilities

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment supports printing Simplified Chinese output through the following types of printing facilities:

• Line printer containing built-in Simplified Chinese fonts

• PostScript-based printer containing built-in scalable fonts

• Any PostScript-based printer for bitmap printing

The system administrator installs printer(s) as described in the printer product documentation. Then users can print Simplified Chinese text using procedures described in this chapter.

Follow the printer documentation for physically connecting the printer. Then use the following instructions.

Line Printer Support

For the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment to run a line printer, the printer must recognize EUC.

Simplified Chinese Solaris Code Filters

A printer that does not support EUC needs filters that convert EUC files for printing. For example, the following command sequence tells LP, the print service, that printer lp1 accepts only GB format files. This command line also installs printer lp1 on port ttya. The lpadmin(1) man page explains this command more fully.

# lpadmin -p lp1 -v /dev/ttya -I GB
# accept lp1
# enable lp1

An lpfilter command line like the following can be used in the process of printing files whose format is not supported by the printer:

# lpfilter -f filter-name -F pathname

The above command tells LP that a converter called filter-name (for example euctogb) is available through the filter description file named pathname. The content of pathname can be as follows:

Input types: simple
Output types: GB
Command: euctocgb

The above filter takes default type file input and converts it to GB format by using euctogb.

To print an EUC file, use the command in the following example:

system% lp EUC-filename 

To print a GB format file, use the following command:

system% lp -T GB GB-filename 

Laser Printer Support

To print Simplified Chinese characters using a PostScript-based printer, a Simplified Chinese Solaris software application must have the Simplified Chinese Solaris xetops utility.

Using the xetops Utility

The xetops utility produces a bitmapped graphics printed image.

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment includes the xetops utility so any system can print Simplified Chinese on a PostScript printer.

Using xetops is described in Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide, in the chapter "Simplified Chinese Printing Facilities," and in the xetops(1) man page.

A typical command line for printing a file named filename containing Simplified Chinese characters with or without ASCII/English characters, would be as follows:

system% pr filename | xetops | lp 

Make filename the name of the file to print. This file can contain ASCII/English characters as well as Simplified Chinese.