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Re: Text printing with Openoffice
On 11/14/05, Thomas Wolff <towo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ooffice -p <file>
> On my system OpenOffice 1.1.3 and 2.0 are installed but there is
> no script ooffice anywhere. The program to start is called soffice
> but it does not handle a -p option.
Then probably you can search for ooo-wrapper or ooo-wrapper2.0, or
some names like that.
Abel
> I tried to find a reliable and decent UTF-8 printing interface for
> use with my text mode editor mined (http://towo.net/mined/), but
> the situation appears to be very unsatisfying:
> * I have never succeeded printing UTF-8 with lpr/cups.
> * I tried to use the internal cups filter texttops directly but it
> only seems to print ASCII (not even Latin-1). As it is completely
> undocumented, I'm stuck.
> * I tried uniprint from the yudit package. It produces nicely looking
> output but fails on some Unicode features, e.g. combining characters
> or right-to-left.
> * Then I found the paps program
> (http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/).
> It provides the best coverage of Unicode features.
> It needs Pango installed and font configuration needs to get
> accustomed to (and if you need to install Pango yourself and are not
> root, you'll have a lot of trouble installing and configuring paps).
> Unfortunately, although it covers Unicode better than uniprint, its
> typographic qualities are lower, some spacing problems, resolution
> depedency...
>
> My findings resulted in the script uprint which is part of my mined package.
> The script tries to print with paps if available, or with uniprint otherwise.
> I'd like to add ooffice as an option if that turns out to work.
>
> Kind regards,
> Thomas Wolff
>
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> Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
> Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
>
>
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