Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:05:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printing cyrillic chars Message-ID: <XFMail.010823160508.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <200108230931.f7N9VpA02945@omsk.mushinsky.net>
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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
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