--- Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the Arabic-HowTo at > http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/arabic-howto-en/printinarabic.html > > let me quote this: > > ------------------ > You can also use TrueType fonts, > > $ txtbdf2ps.pl -UTF-8 \ > -bidi \ > -font=/PATH/PATH/PATH/font.ttf \ > -text=arabic_file > output.ps > ------------------ > > txtbdf2ps.pl doesn't seem to support this option. May be you have > confused it with uniprint which has the -font truetype-font option!!
I've never used uniprint and what is noted there for 'txtbdf2ps' is correct (not sure what 'option' you are talking about). > I also want to point out that with this correction I can't understand > why we are missing anything in the BiDi printing ToDo at arabeyes wiki > page. > > I _can_ use the command line to print text files using lpr (uniprint will > call lpr) as in my example We'd like to add native support (toggle-able) to key applications namely lp/lpr/enscript. Uniprint it seems does its own filtering and I'd go so far as to suggest we include that filtering into the applications of concern (or similar). > If we have one tool that will do a job perfectly well, we should never run > after the 100's other tools (a2ps, txt2ps, text2ps, texttops, ascii2ps ...) > to patch them to do the already can be done job. That's a matter of opinion. The more options we have the better. You might not like enscript while someone else might use it exclusively. As for porting "all" applications - well, that is simply not doable. We'll try to port the more common and fundamental ones (along with ones we tend to use and are interested in - ie. if you like a2ps and use it alot then start working on it ;-) > Again, is there any deficiency in printing BiDi text whether from > the command line or from an application if the correct tool is used? There is unless you use an external filter and/or a hack. We're after clean application built-in native support. Salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
