On 11/14/05, Thomas Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ooffice -p <file> > On my system OpenOffice 1.1.3 and 2.0 are installed but there is > no script ooffice anywhere. The program to start is called soffice > but it does not handle a -p option.
Then probably you can search for ooo-wrapper or ooo-wrapper2.0, or some names like that. Abel > I tried to find a reliable and decent UTF-8 printing interface for > use with my text mode editor mined (http://towo.net/mined/), but > the situation appears to be very unsatisfying: > * I have never succeeded printing UTF-8 with lpr/cups. > * I tried to use the internal cups filter texttops directly but it > only seems to print ASCII (not even Latin-1). As it is completely > undocumented, I'm stuck. > * I tried uniprint from the yudit package. It produces nicely looking > output but fails on some Unicode features, e.g. combining characters > or right-to-left. > * Then I found the paps program > (http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/). > It provides the best coverage of Unicode features. > It needs Pango installed and font configuration needs to get > accustomed to (and if you need to install Pango yourself and are not > root, you'll have a lot of trouble installing and configuring paps). > Unfortunately, although it covers Unicode better than uniprint, its > typographic qualities are lower, some spacing problems, resolution > depedency... > > My findings resulted in the script uprint which is part of my mined package. > The script tries to print with paps if available, or with uniprint otherwise. > I'd like to add ooffice as an option if that turns out to work. > > Kind regards, > Thomas Wolff > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/
