[cups.general] Japanese text printing issue
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Thu Feb 26 21:11:40 PST 2009
Ramanujam wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>
>> The standard CUPS distribution does not include fonts for Japanese, so
>> printing UTF-8 text files directly will yield blanks for any
>> characters not covered by the Deja-Vu fonts.
>
> Wouldn't that mean gedit/OpenOffice won't be able to print Japanese fonts (through CUPS) as well? Japanese text through these apps are printed just fine.
No, they don't send plain text, they send PS/PDF with embedded system
fonts.
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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