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Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

Chapter 9 Printing

Localization Printing Support Under the Solaris 7 Operating Environment

Solaris provides support for PostScript printers. Custom print filters are available to convert localized text to PostScript. See mp(1)and postprint(1)postprintman pages for further details. The ability to download fonts onto a printer is also present.

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

No internationalization-specific changes were made to printing in the Solaris 7 product. Look for printing information in the AnswerBook; the System Administration Guide has several chapters that discuss printing.

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 Table 9-1 below.

Table 9-1 prolog.ps Fonts

/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

Asian Multibyte Printing Support

The xetops and xutops utilities convert Asian text into a bitmapped graphics printed image. This allows you to print Asian characters on PostScript-based printers even without Asian fonts resident on the printers.

A typical command line for printing such a file would be as follows:


system% pr <filename> | xetops |lp

or 


system% pr <filename> | xutops |lp (for the ko.UTF-8 locale)

Japanese Solaris 7 supports the following Japanese-specific printers:

Japanese texts can be printed with these printers through the LP print service. Table 9-2 shows the relation between these printers and user components. See JFP User's Guide for further details.

Table 9-2 Japanese Printer Support

Printer 

terminfo(-T) 

interface(-i) 

content(-I) 

filter 

Japanese PS 

PS 

jstandard 

postscript 

jpostprint 

Epson VP-5085 

epson-vp5085 

jstandard 

None 

jprconv 

NEC PC-PR201 

nec-pr201 

jstandard 

None 

jprconv 

Canon LASERSHOT 

canon-ls-a408 

jstandard 

None 

jprconv 

Use the following to set up a Japanese PostScript printer.

In the following example, the PostScript printer name is lw. The /dev/lp1 is the device that is associated with the printer. For more information, see thelpadmin(1M)lpadmin man page.


# lpadmin -p lw -v /dev/lp1 -T PS -I postscript
# lpadmin -p lw -i /usr/lib/lp/model/jstandard
# cd /etc/lp/fd
# lpfilter -x -f postprint
# lpfilter -f jpostprint -F jpostprint.fd
# accept lw
# enable lw
# /etc/init.d/lp stop
# /etc/init.d/lp start

To print, use the following operation:


% lp -d lw Japanese Text File
Note -

These features are supported only on Japanese Solaris. Input codesets to a printer depend on the system locale.

CDE Font Downloader

PostScript printers connected to a Solaris host may each have different sets of resident fonts. Users can purchase additional fonts and install them on the host or they can remove fonts. There are a number of different ways to accomplish this task. Note, however, that there is no user-level command to manage fonts on a PostScript printer.

Font Downloader is a CDE application for managing fonts on PostScript printers. Specifically it will provide the following functionality:

Technical Description

Font downloader/manager program code is reused for the DT Font Downloader. In addition, the following functionality is provided:

As a result, DT Font Downloader supports type 1, type 3, type 9 (CID 0), type 10 (CID 1), type 11 (CID 2), and type 42 fonts.

If the printer doesn't support TrueType glyph procedures (font types 11 and 42) fonts are converted to one of the supported formats before downloading.

TrueType binary font files located on the host cannot be used in the printer without converting them to a different format. Some printers may support TrueType glyph procedures. Downloading fonts to such printers requires translating single byte TrueType fonts to Type 42 fonts and double byte TrueType font to Type 11 fonts.

Printers with no support for TrueType glyph procedures do not interpret Type 42 or Type 11 fonts. In this case more complex translation is required.

Single-byte TrueType fonts can be translated to Type 3 fonts with loss of quality because of interpolation and hint conversion involved in such a translation. Double-byte TrueType fonts can be translated to Type 10 fonts.

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