picking the best option from similar packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 4 17:32:26 UTC 2005


Tim Waugh (twaugh at redhat.com) said: 
> > It's sort of sad that to get a reasonable printout of a text file
> > in UTF-8 I had to open it in gedit first. Or is there some magic
> > I'm missing out on?
> 
> Did you try just printing the text file with lpr?  It gets converted
> to PostScript (and thence to raster) using CUPS' *own* texttops
> program. :-)

Yeah. That handled the classic latin glyphs, but not CJK, Indic,
etc. 

Bill




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