The Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment supports printing Traditional Chinese output through the following types of printing facilities:
Line printer containing built-in Traditional 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 Traditional Chinese text using procedures described in this chapter.
Follow the printer documentation for physically connecting the printer. Then use the following instructions.
For the Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment to run a line printer, the printer must recognize at least one of the appropriate code sets:
EUC
Big5
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 Big5 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 BIG5 # 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 euctobig5) is available through the filter description file named pathname. This filter takes default type file input and converts it to Big5 format by using euctobig5. The content of pathname can be as follows:
Input types: simple Output types: BIG5 Command: euctobig5 |
To print an EUC format file, use the following command:
system% lp -d lp1 EUC-filename |
To print a Big5 format file, use the following command:
system% lp -d lp1 -T BIG5 Big5-filename |
Traditional Chinese Solaris software provides configurable files that allow users to configure the available built-in font ranges according to their own equipment. Traditional Chinese Solaris software provides a configuration file that defines the built-in fonts in the Epson dot matrix printers.
Modify the configuration file according to your printing equipment before using it:
Modify /usr/lib/lp/files/cns.epson.conf if you are working with a zh_TW file.
Modify /usr/lib/lp/files/big5.epson.conf if you are working with a zh_TW.BIG5 file.
For instance, the following configuration file, /usr/lib/lp/files/cns.epson.conf, is used for setting up an Epson LQ-1070C+ Chinese dot matrix printer. In the example, the Epson LQ-1070C+ is composed of built-in Traditional Chinese fonts for CNS 11643 plane 1 and plane 2. You can specify available fonts in different planes and in different directories.
# @(#)cns.epson.conf 1.5 96/04/10 SMI; ALE # CNS Print Filter Configuration File for Epson Dot Matrix Printers # ACCEPT CODE RANGE: PLANE 1: 0x2121 - 0x234e 0x2421 - 0x2570 0x4421 - 0x7d4b PLANE 2: 0x2121 - 0x7244 FONT FILES: PLANE 1: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL1-24.pcf.Z PLANE 2: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL2-24.pcf.Z PLANE 3: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL3-24.pcf.Z PLANE 4: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL4-24.pcf.Z PLANE 5: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL5-24.pcf.Z PLANE 6: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL6-24.pcf.Z PLANE 7: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL7-24.pcf.Z PLANE 8: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 9: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 10: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 11: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 12: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 13: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 14: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 15: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z PLANE 16: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi/sungNotdef-24.pcf.Z |
An lpfilter command line such as the following can be used to print files whose format is not supported by the printer:
# lpfilter -f filter-name -F filename |
The above command tells LP that a converter called filter-name (for example cns.epson.filter) is available through the filter description file named filename.
If you are installing an Epson dot matrix printer, the content of the filter description file, cns.epson.fd, should be as follows:
Input types: simple Output types: EUC Command: cns.epson.filter |
This filter takes the default type file input and converts it to a dot matrix data stream by using the cns.epson.filter.
For example, the following command sequence tells LP, the printer service, that printer lp2 accepts only EUC format files. This command line also installs printer lp2 on the bidirectional parallel port /dev/bpp0. The lpadmin(1) man page explains this command more fully.
# lpadmin -p lp2 -v /dev/bpp0 -I EUC # accept lp2 # enable lp2 |
To print a file that contains Chinese characters in EUC format to an Epson dot-matrix printer, use the following command:
system% lp -d lp2 EUC-filename |
Traditional Chinese Solaris software provides a configuration file that defines for zh_TW.BIG5 files the built-in fonts in the Epson dot matrix printers. Modify the configuration file according to your printing equipment before using it. The contents of the /usr/lib/lp/files/big5.epson.conf configuration file can be as follows:
# @(#)big5.epson.conf 1.6 96/05/06 SMI; ALE # # Big5 Print Filter Configuration File for Epson Dot Matrix Printers # ACCEPT CODE RANGE: PLANE 1: 0xA140 - 0xA3E0 0xA440 - 0xC6A1 0xC940 - 0xF9D5 FONT FILES: PLANE 1: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW.BIG5/X11/fonts/75dpi/mingL1B5-24.pcf.Z |
An lpfilter command line such as the following can be used to print files whose format is not supported by the printer:
# lpfilter -f filter-name -F filename |
The above command tells LP that a converter called filter-name (for example big5.epson.filter) is available through the filter description file named filename.
If you are installing an Epson dot matrix printer, the content of the filter description file, big5.epson.fd, should be as follows:
Input types: simple Output types: BIG5 Command: big5.epson.filter |
This filter takes the default type file input and converts it to a dot matrix data stream by using the big5.epson.filter.
For example, the following command sequence tells LP, the printer service, that printer lp2 accepts only zh_TW.BIG5 format files. This command line also installs printer lp2 on the bidirectional parallel port /dev/bpp0. The lpadmin(1) man page explains this command more fully.
# lpadmin -p lp2 -v /dev/bpp0 -I BIG5 # accept lp2 # enable lp2 |
To print a file that contains Chinese characters in zh_TW.BIG5 format to an Epson dot-matrix printer, use the following command:
system% lp -d lp2 BIG5-filename |
To print Traditional Chinese characters using a PostScript-based printer, a Traditional Chinese Solaris software application must have the Traditional Chinese Solaris xetops utility to print EUC or Big5 files or xutops.
The xetops utility produces a bitmapped graphics printed image.
The Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment includes the xetops utility so any system can print Traditional Chinese on a PostScript printer.
Using xetops is described in Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide, in the chapter "Traditional Chinese Printing Facilities," and in the xetops(1) man page.
A typical command line for printing a file named filename containing Traditional 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 Traditional Chinese.