NAME¶
ogonkify - international support for PostScript
SYNOPSIS¶
ogonkify [
-p procset] [
-e encoding]
[
-r Old=New] [
-a] [
-c] [
-h] [
-t]
[
-A] [
-C] [
-H] [
-T] [
-AT] [
-CT]
[
-ATH] [
-CTH] [
-E] [
-N] [
-M] [
-mp]
[
-SO] [
-AX] [
-F] [
-RS] [
--]
file ...
DESCRIPTION¶
ogonkify does various munging of PostScript files related to printing in
different languages. Its main use is to filter the output of Netscape, Mosaic
and other programs in order to print in languages that don't use the standard
Western-European encoding (ISO 8859-1).
SUMMARY USAGE¶
Installation instructions are provided in the file INSTALL. Assuming the
installation has been correctly completed, save the PostScript output of
Netscape or Mosaic to a file, say
output.ps. Then print it using
- % ogonkify -AT -N output.ps | lpr
- in the case of Netscape, or
- % ogonkify -AT -M output.ps | lpr
- in the case of Mosaic.
You may want to change the
-AT option to
-CT in order to use a
high quality Courier font from IBM (at the price of slower printing).
An alternative way to print from Netscape is to set the printing command in the
printing dialog box to:
- ogonkify -AT -N | lpr
- For more details, see the USAGE section below.
-
OPTIONS¶
- -p
- Includes the specified procset in the output file.
- -e
- Set the encoding of the output. Defaults to L2 (ISO
8859-2, a.k.a. ISO Latin-2). Other possible values are L1 (ISO
8859-1, a.k.a. ISO Latin-1), L3 (ISO 8859-3, a.k.a. ISO Latin-3),
L4 (ISO 8859-4, a.k.a. ISO Latin-4), L5 (ISO 8859-9, a.k.a.
ISO Latin-5), L6 (ISO 8859-10, a.k.a. ISO Latin-6), L7 (ISO
8859-13, a.k.a. ISO Latin-7), L9 (ISO 8859-15, a.k.a. ISO Latin-9),
CP1250 (Microsoft Code Page 1250, a.k.a. CeP), ibmpc
(Original IBM-PC encoding), mac (Apple Macintosh encoding) and
hp (HP Roman Encoding).
- -r
- Use the font New in place of Old. Will lead
to ugly or unreadable output when the metrics mismatch.
- -a
- Do the right font remappings for using Courier-Ogonki in
place of Courier (the a stands for Adobe Courier). This avoids
downloading any fonts to the printer.
- -c
- Do the right font remappings for using IBM Courier in place
of Adobe Courier.
- -t
- Do the right font remappings for using Times-Roman-Ogonki
in place of Times-Roman.
- -h
- Do the right font remappings for using Helvetica-Ogonki in
place of Helvetica.
- -A
- Like -a but also downloads the Courier-Ogonki fonts.
- -C
- Like -c, but also downloads the IBM Courier fonts.
- -H
- Like -h, but also downloads the Helvetica-xxx-Ogonki
fonts.
- -T
- Like -t, but also downloads the Times-xxx-Ogonki
fonts.
- -CT
- Equivalent to -C -T.
- -CTH
- Equivalent to -C -T -H.
- -E
- Add the Euro currency sign to all standard fonts
(use with -e L9).
- -N
- Do Netscape processing.
- -M
- Do Mosaic processing.
- -mp
- Do mp processing. Will not work with the -A
option (use -C instead).
- -SO
- Do StarOffice processing.
- -AX
- Do ApplixWare processing.
- -F
- Do XFig processing.
- -RS
- Recode standard fonts. This is likely to work with
applications that leave fonts in AdobeStandardEncoding, typically
applications that do not even support printing even of characters.
- --
- End options.
USAGE¶
Let us assume that you want to print a WWW page encoded in ISO Latin-2. Netscape
stubbornly insists on printing it as ISO Latin-1. By using the File->Print
command, have Netscape send the output to a file, say alamakota.ps.
As
ogonkify is configured for ISO Latin-2 by default, passing it the
PostScript generated by Netscape will correct the encoding of the fonts. It is
enough to do:
- % ogonkify -N <alamakota.ps | lpr
However, most printers do not have fonts with the needed characters installed;
synthesized fonts will be downloaded and used instead of Courier and
Times-Roman with
-AT, and a very good Courier font from IBM will be
used with:
-CT. The command will therefore typically be:
- % ogonkify -N -AT <alamakota.ps | lpr
or eventually
- % ogonkify -N -CT <alamakota.ps | lpr
Typical usage with other programs is:
-
% ogonkify -M -AT <alamakota.ps | lpr
% ogonkify -mp -AT <alamakota.ps | lpr
% ogonkify -SO -AT <alamakota.ps | lpr
% ogonkify -AX -ATH <alamakota.ps | lpr
% ogonkify -XF -ATH <alamakota.ps | lpr
BUGS¶
Characters with an `ogonek' should be constructed differently (for instance, the
`ogonek' used with an `a' should be differently shaped than the one used with
an `e'.)
It would be better to patch the programs we have the sources to than to
post-process the produced PostScript.
The program is written in Perl.
NOTES¶
In order to view the output PostScript with Ghostscript, you might need to run
gs with the flag
-dNOPLATFONTS, and
ghostview with the
flag
-arguments -dNOPLATFONTS.
Netscape, IBM, Adobe, PostScript, StarOffice, ApplixWare and possibly others are
registered trademarks.
THANKS¶
Much of the composite character data have been provided by Primoz Peterlin, H.
Turgut Uyar, Ricardas Cepas, Kristof Petrovay and Jan Prikryl.
Jacek Pliszka provided the support for
StarOffice. Andrzej Baginski
provided the support for
ApplixWare.
Markku Rossi wrote
genscript and provided many useful encoding vectors
with the distribution.
Throughout writing the Postscript code, I used the
ghostscript
interpreter, by Peter Deutsch.
Larry Wall wrote
perl, the syntax and semantics of which are a never
ending source of puzzlement.
AUTHOR¶
Juliusz Chroboczek <jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, with help from loads of
people.
