Laser Printer Support

To print Simplified Chinese characters using a PostScript-based printer, a Simplified Chinese Solaris software application must have either the Simplified Chinese Solaris xetops, xutops or mp utilities.

Using the xetops and xutops Utility

The xetops and xutops utilities produce bitmapped graphics as printable images. Simplified Chinese software includes the xetops and xutops utilities so any system can print Simplified Chinese text on a PostScript printer. The xetops utility in both EUC and GBK locales and xutops utility in UTF-8 locale may no longer be supported in the future.

• xetops handles files in the zh and zh.GBK locales

• xutops handles files in zh.UTF-8 locale

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

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 

The syntax for xutops is similar:

system% pr filename | xutops | lp 

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

Using the mp Utility

The mp utility supports all Asian locales including UTF-8 locales. As a print filter, mp generates a pretified version of contents in PostScript format. The Postscript output file contains glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts, depending on each locale's system font configuration for mp.

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% mp filename | lp -d printer

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