Hi all, I've been going crazy trying to setup japanese printing on my box. I am running potato, nearly all upgraded. I have japanese input setup, it works fine. I can display japanese fine. If I print to a postscript file with mozilla, I can read the japanese characters fine with gs or xv or anything. The japanese support was all installed using apt.
However, when I try to print, I _ALWAYS_ get the empty boxes instead of characters. I have been banging my head on the wall, my fist on the screen, and my foot on the tower, but no results have been forthcoming. I've played with packages, "upgraded" ghostscript to gs-aladdin-vflib using a DebianJP source, gs complained of not finding Times or Courier fonts and died. I reinstalled gsfonts to no avail. I reinstalled my original version of gs (6.51-5) and the CJK support files, japanese cmaps, etc. I tried printing from netscape with LANG set to ja_JP.eucJP. No change. I've read Craig Oda's file on Nihongo Linux. It seems horribly outdated (the information on printing is dated from 1998). I am on the verge of breakdown. I dearly love linux, but all I needed to do to print japanese on windows was install the japanese support files and then print away. This is crazy and it's getting on my nerves. I have a dream. A dream of just doing apt-get for a few packages, maybe change some configuration files a bit, then printing from anywhere and getting japanese characters out of my printer. Is that possible? Will it ever be? I'm running CUPS 1.1.12 compiled from source, gimp-print drivers (4.2.0) and am using a newly bought epson stylus C80. Kernel is 2.4.9 (if it matters). Mozilla is 0.9.7 binary. Can anyone help me with this? If you can print japanese yourself but don't want to spend the time helping me troubleshoot this, can you at least give me an outline of what you did, what you installed, from where, etc, to get it working??? I'll be dead grateful for any help, any help at all. I can't read much japanese, I don't speak it well at all, but I bought a printer so I could print out my homework and study materials. Fat help that's been so far. Regards, Sebastien L.