Printing Polish characters - PROBLEM

[Marek Stojecki]

Hi

I have a problem with printing Polish characters under Solaris 8

I set Polish locale, and
on X-Windows it prints OK

But from the line it shows realy srange signs.

Thank YOu in Advance for Your Help.

Marek Stojecki
System Engineer

[Hana Skoumalova]

Marek Stojecki wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a problem with printing Polish characters under Solaris 8
>
> I set Polish locale, and
> on X-Windows it prints OK

What do you mean that on X-Windows it prints OK? Some applications (gv,
Mozilla, etc.) print OK? What about the command line under X-Windows?

From the command line you may try 'mpage -CISO-Latin.2', but first you
will probably have to install mpage.

Hana
--
Hana Skoumalova Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Institute of Theoretical
tel: +420 224491858 & Computational Linguistics (UTKL)
fax: +420 224491875 Celetna 13, 110 00 Praha 1
[url]http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~skoumal[/url] Czech Republic

[Hana Skoumalova]

Marek Stojecki wrote:

> e.g. Printing callendar or netscape view it is OK

I don't work with calendar, but netscape sends postscript to the printer
and either your printer has iso-latin2 postscript fonts or netscape adds
them to the file.

With plain text, you can either use mpage
([url]http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage/[/url]) or teach your emacs to ps-print-buffer
with all sorts of national alphabets. For this you will need intlfonts
(and leim if it is not part of your emacs package) - both are available
at [url]http://www.sunfreeware.com/[/url].

Hana
--
Hana Skoumalova Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Institute of Theoretical
tel: +420 224491858 & Computational Linguistics (UTKL)
fax: +420 224491875 Celetna 13, 110 00 Praha 1
[url]http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~skoumal[/url] Czech Republic

[David Michaels]

> but netscape sends postscript to the printer
> and either your printer has iso-latin2 postscript fonts or netscape adds
> them to the file.

I think netscape has like four font's that are hard coded into printing
part of the code.

Programs like ghostscript can have font's added to them, I don't think
you can add printer font's to Netscape.

I would really like to be proven wrong about this .... I am a
Netscape/Unix user.

Thank You

[email]david.michaels@uc.edu[/email]

[Marek Stojecki]

Thank You

The main goal of printing under Solaris is to print from Oracle Application

I have used fdl to download the fonts (X - window system ) and the I
printed callendar it Was OK

Netscape could not find localle pl_pl.isoo8859-2 replaced It with c.
And printed bad

Printing from the line file(lp aaa) with polish letters failed.




Hana Skoumalova wrote:

> Marek Stojecki wrote:
>

>> e.g. Printing callendar or netscape view it is OK

>
>
> I don't work with calendar, but netscape sends postscript to the printer
> and either your printer has iso-latin2 postscript fonts or netscape adds
> them to the file.
>
> With plain text, you can either use mpage
> ([url]http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage/[/url]) or teach your emacs to ps-print-buffer
> with all sorts of national alphabets. For this you will need intlfonts
> (and leim if it is not part of your emacs package) - both are available
> at [url]http://www.sunfreeware.com/[/url].
>
> Hana

[Hana Skoumalova]

Marek Stojecki wrote:

> Thank You
>
> The main goal of printing under Solaris is to print from Oracle Application
>
> I have used fdl to download the fonts (X - window system ) and the I
> printed callendar it Was OK
>
> Netscape could not find localle pl_pl.isoo8859-2 replaced It with c.
> And printed bad
>
> Printing from the line file(lp aaa) with polish letters failed.

I searched a little bit what Netscape and Mozilla are doing and I found
out that Mozilla uses (some sort of) Unicode in its PS output and our
printer is happy with it. Netscape, on the other hand, uses iso-latin-2
encoding, but if your printer doesn't have the proper font you have to
filter the PS output throut ghostscript or use the program ogonkify (it
works really great). As for the Oracle, I have no experience with it, so
I don't know.

Hana
--
Hana Skoumalova Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Institute of Theoretical
tel: +420 224491858 & Computational Linguistics (UTKL)
fax: +420 224491875 Celetna 13, 110 00 Praha 1
[url]http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~skoumal[/url] Czech Republic