CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Helge Blischke]

Helge Blischke wrote:

> Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> > ...
>>> > i.e. the filter 'rastertohp' is there, what it is missing?
>>>
>>> Ghostscript - look for pstoraster or gstoraster.
>>>
>> 
>> The way generating PCL from the big Postscript file, using Ghostscript'
>> driver ljet4, works fine; the resulting file is only around 64 Kbyte (and
>> not 1 MByte Postscript) for a single half page; the PCL prints fine on HP
>> LaserJet models, but not on some Kyocera Mita FS1010, which are attached
>> on USB to Windows PC's and controlled by some kind of Windows spooling
>> software (in CUPS they are configured as socket:/.... using a Generic PCL
>> driver);
>> 
>> I know that is now already far of topic, but maybe someone has an idea
>> were to look, because the customer has around 70 of these old printers
>> and awaits that they work with Unicode as they did before with ISO 8859-1
>> printing.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>>     matthias
> 
> See
> http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1010
> Kyocera's website states that this printer speaks pcl as well.
> 
> Additionally, if you use Ghostscript release 9.01 or higher, you could
> feed the texttops output through ghostscript and get (a compressed) level
> 2 PS file with embedded subsetted fonts (you can tweak the properties of
> this gs device using the setdistillerparams operator as it is in nearly
> the same device as pdfwrite).
> 
> Helge

And what about a filter (based on Ghostscript) to do the font subsetting (as 
the Monospace font family that comes with CUPS is a Type1 font, this should 
be not too difficult implementing in PostScript).

Helge