HP printer tool

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The program

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/hpp.c

is a quite simple but nice tool to print a fixed-width plaintext file on
a HP LaserJet or DeskJet using the built-in PCL fonts.

The encoding of the plaintext file is determined by the locale, so for
instance write something like

  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 hpp filename.txt | lpr -Pljet

to print a UTF-8 file.

"hpp" switches automatically between several HP fonts to cover a broader
repertoire than any 8-bit font could provide. It covers ISO 8859-1,2,9,
CP437, CP850, CP1252, Mac Roman, PostScript Standard, PostScript Symbol,
and a few more things. Unavailable characters and illegal multi-byte
sequences are represented by different italic question marks.

The program is written in portable standard ISO C 99.

Enjoy ...

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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