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Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

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.