[cups] cups 2.0.2 / cups-filters-1.0.62 && printing UTF-8 text files

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Tue Mar 10 11:02:51 PDT 2015


Hallo Matthias,

the redesign isn’t as far as I hoped. The reason is that for font subsetting 
(the whole Gnu freefont may be too big for a lot of PS printers) I switched
the design from using programs from the t1utils package to pure PostScript
(using Ghostscript as the PS interpreter). I think I’ll need some one to two weeks
more to set up a usable prototype (still without syntax driven highlighting).
I hope this is OK to you.

Helge

> Am 10.03.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>:
> 
> El día Thursday, February 12, 2015 a las 10:40:11AM +0100, Helge Blischke escribió:
> 
>> I’m – currently not with too much effort – doing a redesign of the txttops filter
>> which implements a direct UTF8 text rendering in PostScript using the 
>> GNU FreeFont (see www.gnu.org/software/freefont <http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont> for details and supported
>> writing systems).
>> Currently, I’m thinking about how to rewrite the current texttops’ syntax
>> handling (e.g. by incorporating the vim syntax files). 
>> But, if you badly need a solution, I could push up a „beta version“ without
>> the syntax gimmicks in about two weeks or so. Let me know if that would be
>> a solution for you.
>> The technical requirements are a Perl interpreter (5.8.3 or newer) and a fairly
>> recent version of Ghostscript (for font subsetting, as the complete GNU FreeFont is  
>> fairly large).
>> 
>> Helge
> 
> Hello Helge,
> 
> I returned from Cuba and I'm back to business; I could test something of
> your redesigned txttops filte. Thanks
> 
> 	matthias
> 
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