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Re: [general] Printing Arabic from console
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: [general] Printing Arabic from console
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:18:11 +0200
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I'd suggest you try paps[1], which can generate postscript files from
plain text with proper Arabic rendering.
[1] http://paps.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Khaled
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:09:25PM +0200, koray wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> im trying to print out an Arabic UTF-8 file from console by using
> lpr command. But the paper comes out empty.
> I have no problem with Latin characters. How do you print arabic
> text files from console? I have no problem with Gnome print, but no
> luck from console (lpr command).
> My system is: Suse 11 x64, locale is en_US_UTF-8
>
> *I tried to use a2ps but i couldnt succeed.
>
> Regards
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer