Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
Enscript does not support UTF-8 formatted text files, so it's not usable in this case. One solution, is to use paps, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/enscript.html Another (which I prefer) solution is to send to printer like this (with n being the 8859 extension number): $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-n file-UTF8.txt | enscript --encoding=8859n | lpr -Pprinter Thanks to Martin Paredes for this suggestion. Perhaps this information or the appropriate enscript conversion code for psif could be included in the Handbook (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/printing-lpd.html 10.5.3.4 / 10.5.3.5)? Regards. - FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5956648.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 01:19:42AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió: Enscript does not support UTF-8 formatted text files, so it's not usable in this case. One solution, is to use paps, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/enscript.html ... We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. We have a special enhancement of the used fonts to support most EU languages. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X- No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, CUPS has been broken for me since May/14. (http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/print-cups-base-web-interface-broken-amp-unable-to-print-td5918098.html#a5922974) Installed CUPS components: cups-base-1.7.3_1, cups-client-1.7.3_2, cups-image-1.7.3_1, cups-pdf-2.6.1_1, cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8, gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 Regards. - FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5956658.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 02:26:37AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió: We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, CUPS has been broken for me since May/14. (http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/print-cups-base-web-interface-broken-amp-unable-to-print-td5918098.html#a5922974) Installed CUPS components: cups-base-1.7.3_1, cups-client-1.7.3_2, cups-image-1.7.3_1, cups-pdf-2.6.1_1, cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8, gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 This is one of the reasons we stick with 1.4.3. matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X- No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
@Matthias: This is one of the reasons we stick with 1.4.3. How? Did you create a self-maintained port for it? How did you overcome the problem of CUPS-dependent ports pulling in 1.7.3 in poudriere? Regards. - FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5956672.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 03:07:10AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió: @Matthias: I'm not '@Matthias', but Matthias, and I think, the @ sign is normaly used to express user@host or @domain; This is one of the reasons we stick with 1.4.3. How? Did you create a self-maintained port for it? How did you overcome the problem of CUPS-dependent ports pulling in 1.7.3 in poudriere? I compile it directly from source, also on non-FreeBSD hosts (Linux and SPARC) and ship it to our customers. matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X- No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
On 14 Oct, Beeblebrox wrote: We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, CUPS has been broken for me since May/14. (http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/print-cups-base-web-interface-broken-amp-unable-to-print-td5918098.html#a5922974) Installed CUPS components: cups-base-1.7.3_1, cups-client-1.7.3_2, cups-image-1.7.3_1, cups-pdf-2.6.1_1, cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8, gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 I think it also broke for me around that timeframe until I found that I also needed cups-filters. cups-base-1.7.3_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Server cups-client-1.7.3_2Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups cups-filters-1.0.58Backends, filters and other software (was part of the core CUPS) cups-image-1.7.3_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_6,1 Support library for gnome cups administration ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
@Don: I think it (cups) also broke for me around that timeframe until I found that I also needed cups-filters. You sir, are a life saver! Thank you for the tip. [SOLVED] - FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5956782.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
I have two LPD errors
1. I see two characters being replaced by strings on the hard copy (the {â}
below is an {a^}). This happens on the first page and not on following
pages.
instead of I get: â\200\234 (235 for trailing )
instead of ' I get: â\200\231
2. All non-english characters get garbled, on all pages. These are
characters like ç, ö, etc.
With these two seemingly separate errors, I can't figure out whether this is
an lpr or enscript error.
* The file being sent through lpr is a simple text file.
* /etc/printcap entry for default printer is:
lp|hp2100|HP 2100TN:\
:rm=192.168.1.9:rp=raw:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/filters/psif:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-filter-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp2100:\
:mx=0:sh:
* /var/log/lpd-filter-errs shows: [ 4 pages * 1 copy ] left in - \ 59
lines were wrapped \ 7 non-printable characters
* filetrs/psif is also very basic:
#!/bin/sh
IFS= read -r first_line
first_two_chars=`expr $first_line : '\(..\)'`
case $first_two_chars in
%!)
# %! : PostScript job, print it.
echo $first_line cat exit 0
exit 2
;;
*)
# otherwise, format with enscript
( echo $first_line; cat ) | /usr/local/bin/enscript -o - exit 0
exit 2
;;
esac
-
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Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
El día Sunday, October 05, 2014 a las 10:41:43AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió:
I have two LPD errors
1. I see two characters being replaced by strings on the hard copy (the {â}
below is an {a^}). This happens on the first page and not on following
pages.
instead of I get: â\200\234 (235 for trailing )
instead of ' I get: â\200\231
2. All non-english characters get garbled, on all pages. These are
characters like ç, ö, etc.
With these two seemingly separate errors, I can't figure out whether this is
an lpr or enscript error.
First of all check, what encoding has your text file, UTF-8 or ISO or
...?
Then run the file through the filter
$ /usr/local/bin/enscript -o - file out
and check the resulting file 'out'.
I do not know enscript, but guess that it should produce Postscript from
your input file.
I moved the thread by setting Reply-To: to the normal freebsd-question@
list;
matthias
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printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
@Matthias: I moved the thread by setting Reply-To: to the normal freebsd-question@ list; I'm using the nabble interface, so if the move does not work.. (I've never tried with moved thread before). First of all check, what encoding has your text file, UTF-8 or ISO or $ file print.txt UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines Then run the file through the filter Thanks for that idea - helped narrow down the problem to enscript: $ enscript mytext.txt -o filter.txt [ 4 pages * 1 copy ] left in ens.txt 59 lines were wrapped 7 non-printable characters Resulting file has same encoding errors as hard copy. * I should also mention that I tried this from both Desktop and from tty* with same results. * Will any environment settings affect this? The only relevant entry is: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Regards. -- FreeBSD_amd64_11-Current_RadeonKMS - FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5954593.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
