[cups.general] CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Michael Sweet]

On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>> Use a non-PostScript driver for your printer and this will happen automatically.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Could you please spend some more word on this? Thanks in advance
>> 
>> 
>> If you re-add the printer you can select one of the PCL printer drivers such as the "HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5" driver bundled with CUPS.
> 
> Thanks. Does this mean that I first have to add the printer with a PPD
> and after this again as PCL?

No, you can start with the PCL driver from the beginning; the "re-add" part is only for existing queues.

> And will it still use than the filter texttops (and the fonts from charsets/utf-8) to print UTF-8 text?


Generally yes unless there is another text filter that is installed with a lower cost (or a lower total filter cost - e.g. maybe texttops + pstoraster is more costly than a texttopdf + pdftoraster filter).

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair