CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Helge Blischke]

rebelde wrote:

> Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>> I've just downloaded FSF's FreeFont family and looked at FreeMono. I
>> converted the outline version (.sfd) to a type1 font (using fontforge)
>> and looked into that font.
>> It seems that it contains most of the scripts you need (short of CJK, I
>> think). This font might be a replacement for the Monospace which comes
>> with CUPS.
>> 
>> Helge
> 
> Helge,
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I've fetched the file freefont-sfd-20090104.tar.gz (is this waht you have
> used, or something else or newer) and used 'fontforge' to generate the
> files:
> 
> FreeMonoBold.pfa
> FreeMonoBold.afm
> FreeMono.pfa
> FreeMono.afm
> FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
> FreeMonoBoldOblique.afm
> FreeMonoOblique.pfa
> FreeMonoOblique.afm
> 
> after copying them onto the CUPS font dir the following scripts are not
> printed (at least):
> 
> Greek
> Arabic
> Bengali
> CJK
> 
> Could you please send me your *.pfa files?
> Thanks in advance
> 
>     matthias

In addition you need to edit the file /usr/share/cups/charsets/utf-8 by 
replacing the Monospace* names by FreeMono* names. Note that you only need 
the .pfa files; if you copied them to the cups font directory including the 
name extension, you need to keep the name extension when editing the utf-8 
file.

Helge