Hi Drew,
On problem 1, this I see with OpenOffice and with Foxfire, pretty much
all the time.
Sometimes if I print more than one copy the second or third will show
more of the stuff truncated on the first page on the first copy. Pretty
expensive printing.
On problem 2, try hotmail... regular screen or printable view.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] c]$ locale
LANG=th_TH
LC_CTYPE="th_TH"
LC_NUMERIC="th_TH"
LC_TIME="th_TH"
LC_COLLATE="th_TH"
LC_MONETARY="th_TH"
LC_MESSAGES="th_TH"
LC_PAPER="th_TH"
LC_NAME="th_TH"
LC_ADDRESS="th_TH"
LC_TELEPHONE="th_TH"
LC_MEASUREMENT="th_TH"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="th_TH"
LC_ALL=
The Thais like TIS-620. I don't believe that there is yet a genuine
unicode specification for Thai. It has to do with fonts that require
special character handling, such as vowels consonants and tone marks
that have one defined sequence among several possible. UTF-8 works great
sometimes. TIS-620 is what all the machines in Thailand use "out of the
box".
So now I can at least print English and Thai equally badly :)
I appreciate all the hard work that's been put into linux and x and
xprint, but none of my customers take my machines seriously. They all
prefer "real" computers... those that run Microsoft software. Here in
Thailand, where Microsoft software "sells" at the same price as linux
who can blame them? Nobody has ever given a thought to why Microsoft
software "just works" from the users point of view. Or had to. The linux
solution is rapidly getting as (more?) bloated than the Microsoft
solution... it just doesn't work as well.
Don't get me wrong... I like linux and I use it. But I'm just a perverse
old coot anyway.
On ?., 2005-09-27 at 16:06 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 07:00 +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use xprint to with LinuxTLE (Thai Language Extension) which is FC3.
> > The rpm is xprint-20040707release-0.9.001.5.tlc
> >
> > I have two problems when printing :
> > 1. the top of the page is truncated
> > 2. webpages' text is often missing, although buttons and geegaws are
> > not, when printing from Firefox.
> >
>
> Hi John,
>
> as always it's helpful if you can provide urls of pages which are not
> working satisfactorily. The one you gave previous, www.dailynews.co.th,
> prints from my Debian system, except the font size is uncomfortably
> small.
>
> I can't account for truncating the top of the page. I think text may go
> missing if there isn't a full set of properly registered fonts, though
> I'd have thought your LinuxTLE would have taken care of that.
>
> RedHat has traditionally opposed the use of Xprint, although the
> LinuxTLE sounds like the right thing you've been after for running a
> Thai system. The new Debian stable release ("sarge") was released in
> June. Have you had a chance yet to test it and compare? The initial
> set-up screen starts with a list of languages to install with, and Thai
> is one of the languages listed.
>
> Xprint on Debian has it's own set of problems, which are by no means
> minor, so I can't guarantee you'll prefer it. But I'm not seeing the
> two particular problems you've mentioned here.
>
> It might be worth checking which locale you're running under, since that
> can affect font handling (run "locale", check LANG, or look
> in /etc/environment). If you're in a Thai 8-bit locale (or worse, ASCII
> or latin1), do you get different results using a Thai UTF-8 locale
> instead?
>
> Sorry I can't give a more definitive answer.
>
> Drew
>
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