CUPS-1.4.5 in Solaris 10 AND ISO-8859-1

Anh Minh -Le Van minhlevan at inspq.qc.ca
Thu Jun 9 13:17:03 PDT 2011


> Anh Minh -Le Van wrote:
>
> >> Anh Minh -Le Van wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > Can any one tell me how to printing document witch ISO-8859-1 in
> >> > CUPS-1.4.5 ?
> >> >
> >> > Case : print a document.txt (french characters), can print it out but
> >> > the French accents replace by square
> >> >
> >> > Thanks anyone's help in advance
> >>
> >> Try the texttops wrapper from the links at www.cps.org. It guesses
> >> (mostly successful) the encoding of the input text and transforms it to
> >> UTF-8, which is the only encoding CUPS supports for 1.3.x and higher.
> >>
> >> Note that this workaround does *not* work for raw queues.
> >>
> >> Helge
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you show me more detail how to replace texttops in CUPS in solaris
> > 10 sparc. Do I to nedd complile your script ? I did install CUPS form
> > opencsw ( pkgutil -i cups cupsd hpijs foomatic_filters)
> >
> > Thanks
>
> As your issue is with ISO-8859-1, you need only perform the following steps:
>
> (1) in your cups/filter directory, rename texttops to orig.texttops
> (2) put the script texttops into this same directory and give it the same
>      permissions as the orig.texttops
>
> Note that you need to do this as superuser.
>
> Note that the script requires a Perl interpreter 5.8.0 or higher (highly
> recommended 5.8.3 or higher), and the Perl module Encode::Guess must be
> installed (IIRC, it is one of the core modules and this should be installed
> by default).
>
> Helge
>

Hi Helge,

This Works For Me

Thank you very much

LeVan




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