How to show printer resident fonts in write?

Gurmeet Singh gurmeet.janjua at yahoo.in
Mon Jan 2 22:43:42 PST 2012


>AFAIK CUPS does not use non-postscript printer's resident fonts - that's >certainly the case for HP PCL/PXL or compatible printers. Many [all?] of those >printers have PCL resident fonts. AFAIK CUPS ignore non-postscript printer's >resident fonts, and just does full-page graphics in most cases. Somebody more >knowledgeable on CUPS' non-postscript functionality, please correct me if I am >wrong. Also, AFAIK, current CUPS (or current Linux/ghostscript based printing) >already can print to many Epson(?) 24-pin dot matrix printers. Have your >checked the CUPS DDK yet, how CUPS interact with Epson dot matrix printers?

Thanks for your reply.
The printer is PostScript printer. I am able to print the test page and other files from the printer with cups using ppd file.
Printer has some resident fonts which i need to display in the writer. so that user can write in the writer with fonts which are in ROM. which will speed up the printing.
I have done this in windows for same printer. I have used .ufm font files in case of windows. This is automatic in windows DDK. I have just given the reference in .GPD file for font files. when printer installed/Uninstalled, these .ufm font files automatically installed/uninstalled in system but i don't know how same is possible in ubuntu (in PPD files).

Please let me know, Where i can give reference of font files in ppd file or i have to develope a C/C++ program to acheive this so that the font will display in writer?

Thanks.





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