From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 7: 5:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C3D37B40B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7NE57h28185; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:05:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200108230931.f7N9VpA02945@omsk.mushinsky.net> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:05:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Isaac Mushinsky Subject: Re: Printing cyrillic chars Cc: freebsd-questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Aug-01 Isaac Mushinsky wrote: > You need to substitute the postscript fonts with the Russian ones. Download > the fonts using russian/koi8r-ps in ports if you don't have them yet. > > In order to make the printer always print using these fonts, you may want to > delete the old fonts and edit the aliases file to alias Times->TimesNRCyrMT, > etc. > > However, this is not nice; if you only need to print Russian occasionally, > run your document through a sed script like this: > > >#!/bin/sh > sed "s/Times-Roman/TimesNRCyrMT/g; \ > s/Times-Bold/TimesNRCyrMT-Bold/g;\ > s/Times-Italic/TimesNRCyrMT-Italic/g; \ > s/Courier/CourierCyrPS/g;\ > s/Helvetica/ArialCyrMT/g;" > ... > > use > > cat yourfile.ps | the_script | lpr > > If you often print russian, you can make a print filter apply the script > before sending the file to print. > > Good luck. OK, have done that. Now the pages look nice when in ghostscript but they are still "encrypted" when printed. I have tried two different printers HP 4500 and HP 8500. Any tips? /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message