> ooffice -p <file> On my system OpenOffice 1.1.3 and 2.0 are installed but there is no script ooffice anywhere. The program to start is called soffice but it does not handle a -p option. Which script do you refer to?
> The user interface does not come up, so it is reasonably fast. The > print results are very nice. > ... > I called this script ooprint, and can now print arbitrary UTF-8 > text files by just piping them into ooprint. I tried to find a reliable and decent UTF-8 printing interface for use with my text mode editor mined (http://towo.net/mined/), but the situation appears to be very unsatisfying: * I have never succeeded printing UTF-8 with lpr/cups. * I tried to use the internal cups filter texttops directly but it only seems to print ASCII (not even Latin-1). As it is completely undocumented, I'm stuck. * I tried uniprint from the yudit package. It produces nicely looking output but fails on some Unicode features, e.g. combining characters or right-to-left. * Then I found the paps program (http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/). It provides the best coverage of Unicode features. It needs Pango installed and font configuration needs to get accustomed to (and if you need to install Pango yourself and are not root, you'll have a lot of trouble installing and configuring paps). Unfortunately, although it covers Unicode better than uniprint, its typographic qualities are lower, some spacing problems, resolution depedency... My findings resulted in the script uprint which is part of my mined package. The script tries to print with paps if available, or with uniprint otherwise. I'd like to add ooffice as an option if that turns out to work. Kind regards, Thomas Wolff -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
