Setup CUPS-1.4.6 in Solaris 10?
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Feb 17 02:59:55 PST 2011
dickson wrote:
> recap my current printing problem in a dot matrix printer:
>
> case 1. print a pdf (without embedded Chinese font), fails and no print
> out.
> case 2. print a pdf (with embedded Chinese font), can print it out.
> case 3. print a plain text (UTF-8 Chinese characters), only print out
> strange character in the printout.
>
> (About the details and logging, please view my previous message)
>
> I need to fix the problem in Case 1 first and then go on to solve the
> problem in Case 3. Thanks anyone's help in advance.
>From the latest error_log in your last message I see that your pdftops
filter is configured to use Ghostscript for the PDF to PostScript
conversion. And this invocation of Ghostscript does not contain the -I
switch. Moreover, this invocation uses Ghostscript's pswrite device which
causes all glyphs of all fonts to be converted to bitmaps.
To solve your case 1 ptoblem, I'd suggest to implement the Xpdf utilities
from
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
and use the alternate pdftops filter (which is a Perl wrapper around the
Xpdf utility) from
http://www.cups.org/links.php?V70+Qpdftops
Together with the already modified pstoraster filter, this approach should
do it.
If you will have succeeded, let us go to your case 3 and tweak the cups'
utf-8 charset file using a suitable chinese font.
Helge
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