Re: bidi text printing ( was: Re: dev help...)

[dov at imagic dot weizmann dot ac dot il]

You might want to try my program paps at:

    http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/

It is not a perfect solution and it creates huge postscript files
(the fonts are converted to outlines), but it might still be 
sufficient. It is using pango for shaping and thus the output 
should look exactly as within gtk/gnome.

Just do:

   paps --rtl file.utf8 | lpr

Regards,
Dov

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Kamal Dalal wrote:
> ahmad khalifa wrote:
> >[...]
> >anyway, for every file CUPS starts a chain of filters that ends with the
> >Printer driver, redirecting each filter's stdout to the next one's stdin...
> >
> >example: if your printing a text file, this is what i think happens
> >the filter chain looks like this:
> >txttops >> pstops >> pstohp
> >something similar happens, im not sure exactly what...
> >
> >anyway, the problem (if there is one) would be in the 'txttops'
> >filter, that converts text files to .ps documents and prints it on
> >stdout so pstohp can receive it on stdin and send it to some backchain
> >driver or whatever...
> >
> >so, either .ps files are not shaped correctly by 'txttops' or it needs
> >some configuration that im not aware of... im a linux newbie remember..!
> >
> 
> uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing
> 
> uniprint comes with yudit (unicode text editor).
> 
> I haven't tried this but one may attempt to configure a CUPS filter with 
> uniprint and see what happens.
> 
> Kamal
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