Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 18:14:33 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200506111433.GC77496@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <2c213d5f-8c18-812e-8770-dd5312b1edf7@panix.com> References: <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505161952.GA34844@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505185510.00b622e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru> <2c213d5f-8c18-812e-8770-dd5312b1edf7@panix.com>
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--Sr1nOIr3CvdE5hEN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On 2020-05-05 14:01, Victor Sudakov wrote: >=20 > > A PostScript translator (GhostScript or any other) can be expected to > > "raster" the PS input incorrectly if this input contains encodings it d= oes > > not understand, or glyphs/fonts it is lacking. > >=20 > > I've seen so many problems with Cyrillic in my life, believe me. I've > > seen PDFs with some Cyrillic glyphs replaced by garbage, and much more > > of such weird stuff than I wish to see. >=20 >=20 > It would be nice if you could send plain Unicode to a printer. Ideally, I > guess, either compressed or not -- UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. I don't expe= ct > it to happen. For the present, I'd be even happy to be able to convert KOI8-R Russian Cyrillic to PostScript or PDF, even this is not happening. Even vim's "hardcopy" feature produces PostScript with missing symbols instead of Russian ones. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --Sr1nOIr3CvdE5hEN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJespwZAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0AaAH/3qTawSQ/JX+A5I9dPBOypat NNGsQ0uaNvDyiFkEtiLyn9P5O4AHSJJ1fpzwrQWtIPdlCIJlXe1bzJjk3bjTcm1l qyCLvmZDVXT9jiQpyEZOTr0X0LmsJvnpGp+eccWftEse+T4LDAHcUkBOpmah5nra 0rWXIGRtz2hv2kUAsNt5JVmvCKbUwQZPT292BA4p78yJVNR02inJ5WT78VSDb7Yt E9nG/7+6EmahRj7nKha4J5exujX6joHEPgrV7cvEGej5ftWDc5Nvjf9nhgsJUHOJ ouIuBiVjQgF/bpw+qVoE1lkwb/w2O37b1UV6YuoQrin+nVMgjmRFlIGNmhdKCSQ= =mXv9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sr1nOIr3CvdE5hEN--
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