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uniprint(1)


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.

SEE ALSO

    uniconv

AUTHOR

   This program  was written by gsinai@iname.com (Gaspar Sinai), using the
   code of ttf2pfa program that was written by Adrew Weeks.  Last  Updated
   Tokyo, 2 November, 2001.



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