Ubuntu Manpage: uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing

NAME

       uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing

SYNOPSIS

       uniprint  [  -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 ]

DESCRIPTION

       uniprint 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
       operate.

       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
       program 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 otherwise.

-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/config/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 create 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.

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