Re: Text printing with Openoffice

[Abel Cheung <abelcheung@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/14/05, Vasilis Vasaitis <vvas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   I tried printing a simple UTF-8 text file with greek text, and the
> result was quite inadequate. It managed to get the simple letters from
> the Symbol font (I assume), but the accented letters did not get
> printed out at all. The result is both ugly and unreadable for the
> most part.
>
>   The OOo method, on the other hand, handled it fine.

I have also tried using ooffice -p (2.0); actually it doesn't work well with cjk
characters, with characters overlapping each other; but at least all the
characters do print successfully.

The best one I can find to handle cjk characters well is u2ps, which utilizes
pango for font rendering. It is basically a replacement of a2ps that
can recognize
unicode, with Arabic BiDi support; though kde users may not like it too much :-)

Abel


>
> > What I didn't test is double-width (cjk) characters, combining symbols,
> > non-printable characters, invalid UTF-8 sequences and other similar more
> > tricky files. It's easily possible that OOo is better in this respect.
>
>
> --
> Vasilis Vasaitis
> "A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so."
>
>
>
> --
> Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
> Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
>
>


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