CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

rebelde guru at unixarea.de
Tue Aug 3 10:18:33 PDT 2010


Helge Blischke wrote:

>> 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.

I did all the above before sending the post; 

the file /usr/share/cups/charsets/utf-8 contains:

# generated with 'fontforge' out of freefont-sfd-20090104.tar.gz
#
0000 00FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
0100 01FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
0200 02FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
0300 03FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
0400 04FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
1E00 1EFF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
1F00 1FFF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
2000 20FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
2300 23FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
2400 24FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
2500 25FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa
2600 26FF ltor single FreeMono.pfa FreeMonoBold.pfa FreeMonoOblique.pfa FreeMonoBoldOblique.pfa

I've checked even with fontforge if in the file FreeMono.pfa in U+0370... are glyphs;

When I print something I can proof with 'ls -ltru' in the fonts dir that the file
FreeMono.pfa is read by CUPS.

Could you please send me your FreeMono.pfa? Thx

    matthias




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