CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Helge Blischke]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

> 
> Hello Helge,
> Thanks for your kind reply;
> 
>> The Monospace font family (originally licensed from Bitstream) is part of
>> the CUPS 1.4.x distribution (short of Mac OS X, I guess). A first glance
>> at one of these fonts (Monospace, the plain style font) shows that the
>> glyph collection seems to cover (nearly?) all latin based scripts,
>> including cyrillic, but lacks greek and the more exotic ones, especially
>> the asian ones.
> 
> Just to make sure, you are talking about cups-1.4.3/fonts/Monospace
> file... how can I make this visible (well, I can open it with vi, but this
> is not what I mean :-))
> 
>>
>> You will need to get (buy?) a full featured monospaced font and probably
>> modify the texttops filter to handle that fon(s) if it is not a plain
>> type1 font.
>>
> 
> Interesting is that when I open the original UTF-8 text file in KDE's
> KWrite, then some of the missing glyphs are there, not all but at least
> Greek. I've place an image of KWrite screen here:
> http://www.unixarea.de/CUPS-UTF8.jpg and the original UTF-8 text file as
> well: http://www.unixarea.de/CUPS-UTF8.txt
> 
> Would it be possible to use somehow the KDE's font for CUPS?
> Thanks
> 
>     Matthias

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