The Chinese HOWTO: Printing Utilities

6. Printing Utilities

6.1 CNPRINT

Cnprint is an utility to print Chinese text or convert Chinese text to PostScript. It works just like a print command and support GB, HZ and BIG5 formats.

Where is cnprint

cnprint260.tar.gz can be found at ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/unix/print

Install cnprint

The package cnprint260.tar.gz contains only four files


# ls
cnprint.1     cnprint.c     cnprint.cmd   cnprint.help

You can compile it by


# gcc cnprint.c -o cnprint
# mv cnprint /usr/local/bin
# mv cnprint.1 /usr/local/man/man1

For cnprint to work properly, you need to specify the full path for the fonts files (HBF fonts). In csh or tcsh


# setenv HBFPATH "/usr/local/chinese/HBF/"

In sh or Bash


# set HBFPATH="/usr/local/chinese/HBF/"; export HBFPATH

The file cnprint.cmd contains the default settings for cnprint. It should be put in \$HBFPATH


# cp cnprint.cmd $HBFPATH

If you convert Chinese text file to PostScript use the command ``cnprint -w FILENAME''

6.2 GB2PS

GB2PS is another printing utility support GB and HZ encoding. It comes with a cover page for printing HXWZ.

Where to find GB2PS

Package:
gb2ps.2.02.tar.gz       ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/unix/print

fonts:
csong24.ccf     ckai24.ccf   ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/fonts/gb/misc 
cfang24.ccf     chei24.ccf

Put fonts in some place. Mine is in /usr/local/chinese/CFONT

Installing GB2PS

Before you compile gb2ps, you need to change two settings in the Makefile, the fonts directory and cover page location


CFONT=/usr/local/chinese/CFONT/
COVERPAGE=/usr/local/chinese/lib/cover.ps

Then just type


# make
# cp gb2ps /usr/local/bin

6.3 DTop

Don't know much about it