paps (was: Text printing with Openoffice)

2005-11-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Abel Cheung wrote: On 11/18/05, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because paps is quite under development right now. But I still packaged it and uploaded to Mandriva Linux. :-) Yes, comparing to u2ps (which halted development for some time) paps is indeed a better solution, though

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-19 Thread Abel Cheung
On 11/18/05, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > where mytest.txt is a multilingual UTF-8 file, and get a very nice > > print. This is amazing. I wonder why paps hasn't yet been picked > > up by the major distributions, so "ordinary users" could install > > it without having to compile.

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > where mytest.txt is a multilingual UTF-8 file, and get a very nice > print. This is amazing. I wonder why paps hasn't yet been picked > up by the major distributions, so "ordinary users" could install > it without having to compile. Because paps is

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Abel Cheung wrote: I have also tried using ooffice -p (2.0); actually it doesn't work well with cjk characters, with characters overlapping each other; but at least all the characters do print successfully. Hmm.. I did not see these "overlapping" CJK characters. I wonder when and why this happ

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-15 Thread Abel Cheung
On 11/14/05, Vasilis Vasaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried printing a simple UTF-8 text file with greek text, and the > result was quite inadequate. It managed to get the simple letters from > the Symbol font (I assume), but the accented letters did not get > printed out at all. The resul

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-15 Thread Abel Cheung
On 11/14/05, Thomas Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ooffice -p > 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-wra

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-15 Thread Abel Cheung
On 11/14/05, Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by multibyte characters? Hm, my bad habit. What I mean is characters outside iso-8859-* and ASCII range. Basically, bare lpr is pretty useless outside America and Europe. Abel > Of course all the accented letters > are m

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Wolff wrote: With a file name, soffice does TRY to print but also it fails to print apparently because it depends on a properly configured Unix printer channel. Yes, and lpr has to be able to handle PostScript through some 'input filter'. Can it be told to just produce PostScript outp

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> ooffice -p > > > > 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. Which script do you > > refer to? > > On my

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Wolff wrote: ooffice -p 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. Which script do you refer to? On my (Debian) system it is in /usr/bin. The comment at the

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
> ooffice -p 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. Which script do you refer to? > The user interface does not come up, so it is reasonably fast. The > print result

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-14 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:51:27AM +0100, Koblinger Egmont wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:52:23AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote: > > > On 11/13/05, Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > fancy, just the good old fixed-width fonts with 80 columns, but the > > > accented > > > (NFC) lett

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-14 Thread Koblinger Egmont
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:52:23AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote: > On 11/13/05, Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fancy, just the good old fixed-width fonts with 80 columns, but the accented > > (NFC) letters are okay. > > ... While all multibyte characters become junk. (since 2001) Wh

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-13 Thread Abel Cheung
On 11/13/05, Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fancy, just the good old fixed-width fonts with 80 columns, but the accented > (NFC) letters are okay. ... While all multibyte characters become junk. (since 2001) Abel > > > > -- > Egmont > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all leve

Re: Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-13 Thread Koblinger Egmont
Hi, > This may be interesting for list members: Openoffice can be used > as a command-line printer for UTF-8 text files. The command is: I haven't tried it, but a simple "lpr filename" also does a good job using cups 1.1.23, if lpr is invoked with an UTF-8 locale. It doesn't do anything fancy, j

Text printing with Openoffice

2005-11-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This may be interesting for list members: Openoffice can be used as a command-line printer for UTF-8 text files. The command is: ooffice -p The user interface does not come up, so it is reasonably fast. The print results are very nice. Almost always Openoffice is clever enough to detect tha