UNIPRINT(1) LINUX COMMANDS UNIPRINT(1)NAMEuniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing
SYNOPSISuniprint [ -out output-file ] [ -in input-file ] [ -decode encoding ] [
-printer printer ] [ -L ] [ -media media ] [ -us ] [ -nus ] [ -break ]
[ -wrap ] [ -left ] [ -right ] [ -size font-size ] [ -hsize header-
font-size ] [ -font truetype-font-file ]
DESCRIPTIONuniprint is a program from the yudit distribution. It makes a formatted
poscript output that can be saved or directly sent to the printer. The
program needs a TrueType font that has unicode table in order to oper‐
ate.
If you are running Linux you most probably have unicode truetype fonts,
because there are very few vendors, if any. who give discount if you do
not buy Windows. If you are running other Unices it is still possible
to get a freely available font. I have made ciberbit.ttf a default font
for uniprint, mainly because it is freely downloadable from
http://www.bitstream.com/.
The postcript output contains all drawing information. No extra fonts
are needed, and it can be printed on any postscript printer. You may
encounter probkems with old ghostview or old printers. I used this pro‐
gram with ghostscript 5.10 because 2.6.2 gave me stack overflow error.
OPTIONS-out ouput-file
Do not sent the output to the printer, put it in the file
instead. If the '-' character is specified, send the postscript
data to the standard output.
-in input-file
If specified read the document from a file. Read stdin other‐
wise.
-decode encoding
specifies the encoding of the input text. All encodings that
are available for uniconv can be used. If not specified encoding
is set to utf-8.
-printer printer
Send the postscript output to printer through the 'lpr -P
Printer' command.
-break option makes this program print a graphical representation of
line breaking characters.
-us option turns on uniscribe emulation. For some scripts emulation
is turned on by default.
-nus option turns off uniscribe emulation. For some scripts emulation
is turned off by default.
-wrap option makes this program do a simplistic line breaking on word
boundaries.
-left option sets the embedding of the document to Left.
-right option sets the embedding of the document to Right.
-L Selects landscape printing. The default is portrait.
-media media
Sets paper size. The default is A4. The following media values
are accepted: A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, Executive, Folio, Ledger,
Legal, Letter, Quarto, Statement, Tabloid
-size font-size
sets the size of the font for the text body in points.
-hsize heder-font-size
sets the size of the font for the header in points. If zero
size is specified, no header is printed.
-font truetype-font
specifies the font to be used for printing.
truetype-font is the full pathname of the font, like
/somepath/myfonts/cyberbit.ttf or just the name of the file
cyberbit.ttf. The fonts are searched using yudit.fontpath
property in ~/.yudit/yudit.properties or /usr/share/yudit/con‐
fig/yudit.properties. directory where the font files are kept.
By default /usr/share/yudit/fonts and ~/.yudit/fonts are
searched. This option can be specified multiple times, to cre‐
ate a virtual font.
FILES
~/.yudit/yudit.properties or /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties
can have yudit.fontpath and yudit.datapath properties. The former is
where the font files, the latter is where the map files are kept. By
default /usr/share/yudit/fonts is searched.
SEE ALSO
uniconv
AUTHOR
This program was written by gsinai@iname.com (Gaspar Sinai), using the
code of ttf2pfa program that was written by Adrew Weeks. Last Updated
Tokyo, 2 November, 2001.
LINUX COMMANDS Nov 25 1997 UNIPRINT(1)
