Japanese text printing issue

[Koji Otani]

> > 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.
>
> Ramanujam
>

On Ubuntu 8.10, the textfilter of cups is not configured for Japanese.
Please try followings to configure it.

sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/* /usr/share/cups/fonts/
sudo sh -c "echo 0000 FFFF ltor double kochi-mincho.ttf kocho-gothic.ttf\
 kochi-mincho.ttf kocho-gothic.ttf >> /usr/share/cups/charsets/pdf.utf-8"

And you might make sure that Ghostscript and poppler are configured for Japanese.
poppler: poppler-data package should be installed
Ghostscript: cmap-adobe-japan1 should be installed,
   /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/lib/cidfmap should be removed.

This is a problem on Ubuntu.
You would better go to an Ubuntu forum.
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Koji Otani