uniprint
is a program form the yudit distribution. It makes a formatted poscript
output that can be saved or directly sent to the printer.
The program needs a TrueType font that has unicode table in order to
operate.
If you are running Linux you most probably have unicode truetype fonts,
because there are very few vendors, if any. who give discount if you do not
buy Windows. If you are running other Unices it is still possible to
get a freely available font. I have made ciberbit.ttf a default font for
uniprint, mainly because it is freely downloadable from
http://www.bitstream.com/.
The postcript output contains all drawing information. No extra
fonts are needed, and it can be printed on any postscript printer.
You may encounter probkems with old ghostview or old printers. I used
this program with ghostscript 5.10 because 2.6.2 gave me stack overflow
error.
OPTIONS
-out ouput-file
Do not sent the output to the printer, put it in the file instead.
If the
'-'
character is specified, send the postscript data to the standard output.
-in input-file
If specified read the document from a file. Read stdin otherwise.
-decode encoding
specifies the encoding of the input text.
All encodings that are available for
uniconv
can be used. If not specified encoding is set to utf-8.
-printer printer
Send the postscript output to printer through the 'lpr -P Printer'
command.
-break
options makes this program print a graphical representation of
line breaking characters.
-size font-size
sets the size of the font for the text body in
points.
-hsize heder-font-size
sets the size of the font for the header in
points.
If zero size is specified, no header is printed.
-font truetype-font
specifies the font to be used for printing.
truetype-font
is the full pathname of the font, like
/somepath/myfonts/cyberbit.ttf
or just the name of the file
cyberbit.ttf.
The fonts are searched using yudit.fontpath property
in ~/.yudit/yudit.properties or /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties.
directory where the font files are kept.
By default /usr/share/yudit/fonts and ~/.yudit/fonts are searched.
This option can be specified multiple times, to create a virtual font.
FILES
~/.yudit/yudit.properties or /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties
can have yudit.fontpath and yudit.datapath properties.
The former is where the font files, the latter is where the map files
are kept.
By default /usr/share/yudit/fonts is searched.
SEE ALSO
uniconv
AUTHOR
This program was written by [email protected] (Gaspar Sinai),
using the code of
ttf2pfa
program that was written by Adrew Weeks.
Last Updated
Tokyo, 2 November, 2001.
