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NAME

psfontpf - internationalized PostScript print ﬁlter

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lbin/psfontpf

[-c][-C conﬁg-ﬁle][

-D keyword=option][-I keyword=option]

[

-K keyword=aliases][

-l logﬁle ][-L locale=aliases][-n number][-N keyword ]

[

-o option-lists ][-O [keyword:]option

=aliases][-p][-P ppd-ﬁle][-q interface-script ]

[

-S macro[/desc]=

option-lists ][-t title ][-T tray=paper][-u user ][

-v]

Remarks

The

psfontpf command should only be called from the

PS.font printer model script or its deriva-

tives. Only the

-n, -o, and

-t options are user-accessible through the corresponding options in the

command. Only the sub-options available under the user-accessible

-o option are explained in more

detail. See the User Speciﬁed -o Option Lists section in this manpage. The other options are not directly

user-accessible and are only brieﬂy described. See psmsgen(1M) on how to create a customized version of

the

PS.font printer model script by adjusting the various options supported by the

psfontpf print

ﬁlter.

DESCRIPTION

The

psfontpf ﬁlter is a generic text-to-PostScript converter that converts the various single byte and

multibyte characters used in an international environment to printable PostScript ﬁle. The ﬁlter embeds

all required PostScript font data within the PostScript program, if necessary. Therefore, print jobs that

include local language characters can be printed on printers where local language fonts are not present.

The

psfontpf ﬁlter supports the printing of characters in the following languages or scripts:

1. Latin-based and Cyrillic-based European languages.

2. East Asian ideographic character based languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean).

3. Arabic and Hebrew with bidirectional printing support.

4. Devanagari (Hindi) and Thai. A little extra line spacing is recommended for both of them to

avoid possible overlap of characters between adjacent lines.

There are two ways to notify

psfontpf on what character set encoding (codeset) is used in the input ﬁle:

by specifying the locale or the codeset name. For codesets that are supported by locales, the speciﬁcation

of locale names are preferred over the direct speciﬁcation of codeset names because the locale names are

also associated with fonts and proper character display width information. Because psfontpf converts

all characters internally to Unicode, codesets or locales whose codesets cannot be converted to Unicode

directly are not supported.

To use the

psfontpf ﬁlter with a printer, the printer has to support PostScript Level 2 or higher. Some

features are supported only on printers that support PostScript Level 3.

The

psfontpf ﬁlter also supports embedding font data to PostScript ﬁles generated by the Mozilla web

browser. For example, by making the Mozilla web browser print to an LP destination that uses the

psfontpf print ﬁlter, web pages containing non-Latin 1 characters can be printed correctly on a

PostScript printer.

The

psfontpf ﬁlter supports the parsing of Adobe PostScript printer description ﬁle (PPD) to retrieve

information on using diverse features of various PostScript printers. Without specifying a PPD ﬁle, many

of the advanced printing features, like duplex printing, will not be available for use.

Options

The

psfontpf ﬁlter recognizes the following options:

-c Print control characters and suppress page break.

-C config-file Specify additional conﬁguration ﬁle to override entries from the default

conﬁguration ﬁles.

-D keyword =option Set the speciﬁed option key as the default value for the given PPD main

keyword.

-i req-id Specify the request id to be printed on the banner page.

-I keyword =option Set the speciﬁed option key as the value of the given PPD installable

option keyword .

HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1

Summary of content (8 pages)

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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) NAME psfontpf - internationalized PostScript print filter SYNOPSIS /usr/lbin/psfontpf [-c] [-C config-file ] [-D keyword =option] [-I keyword =option] [-K keyword =aliases] [-l logfile ] [-L locale =aliases] [-n number] [-N keyword ] [-o option-lists ] [-O [keyword :]option =aliases] [-p] [-P ppd-file ] [-q interface-script ] [-S macro[/desc]=option-lists ] [-t title ] [-T tray =paper] [-u user ] [-v] Remarks The psfontpf command should only be called from the PS.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) -K keyword =aliases Specify a set of comma-separated aliases for the given PPD main keyword. -l logfile Specify a log file to log error and informational message. By default, the log file is /var/adm/lp/psfontpf.log. -L locale =aliases Specify a set of comma-separated aliases for the given locale name, such as, japanese for ja_JP.eucJP. -n number Print the specified number of copies. -N keyword Disable the given non-PPD keyword from the configuration file.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) Another possible value is rtol, which forces right-to-left rendering of all input lines even if they do not contain any right-to-left character. bm=bottom-margin Specify the bottom margin of the page for text printing. The unit can be in for inch (default), pt for point, cm or mm. btray=input-tray Select the input paper tray to be used for printing the banner page. The input-tray name is dependent on what is specified in the PPD file.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) padding spaces will be added between characters or lines, if necessary. nojcl Specify that escape sequences associated with HP’s Job Control Language should not be sent out even if they are defined in the PPD file. nopfont|np Specify that non Latin-1 printer resident fonts should not be used for printing.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) tumble|two_sided_tumble Print on both sides of the sheet, but print the opposite way up on each side, so that the second side can be read by flipping the sheet along its top axis. This option is supported only if duplexing support is available in the PPD file. tm=top-margin Specify the top margin of the page for text printing. udc=udc-file Specify the user-defined character raster font as specified in the udc(4) manpage should be used.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) A latter option may invalidate a former related option. For example, a letter size page (11in x 8.5in) with a page margin of 0.5in and a lines-per-inch of 6 will print 60 lines per page. Specifying 66 as the number of lines per page (lines ) will then force the lines-per-inch to 6.6. The following four groups of character spacing options are inter-related in descending priority order: 1. 2. 3. 4.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) even for input lines that do not contain any right-to-left character. codeset alias: codeset =aliases Specify a list of comma-separated alias names for the given codeset . The codeset alias: configuration entry is mainly used to map Mozilla codeset names to native HP-UX codeset names. galley char: codeset =galley-char Specify the galley character used in the Unicode to codeset iconv converter.
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psfontpf(1M) psfontpf(1M) truetype font: lang ftype width =tt-font-paths[attributes ...] Specify the names of the TrueType fonts for the given language lang and display width . Additional attributes can be associated with each specified font. truetype typeface: typeface-name[/desc]=tt-font-paths Associate the given typeface name to the list of TrueType fonts specified after :. xlfd font: lang ftype width =xlfd-names[attributes ...