Gnome u2ps 0.0.4

Developer : Yukihiro Nakai
Price : FREE
License : GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size : 0.34 MB
OS : Printing

Gnome u2ps Description

Gnome-u2ps converts Unicode texts to GNU a2ps style postscript.

GNU a2ps is a popular text printing program but it is not maintainanced and lacks i18n features, especially complex languages like Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic.

Gnome-u2ps brings GNOME i18n benefits to text printing world.

Here are some key features of “Gnome u2ps”:

• UTF-8 text conversion to PostScript by libgnomeprint (>= 2.5.4 required)
• Legacy codeset support with -X option. (‘iconv -l’ to see the supported codeset)
• Appropriate font guessing from current locale
• Arabic bidirectional text support with libfribidi (>=0.10.4)
• Legacy codeset auto-detection of plain text
• EUC-JP, SJIS, ISO-2022-JP for Japanese(ja_JP.*)
• EUC-KR for Korean(ko_KR.*)
• Big5 for Traditional Chinese(zh_TW.*)
• GB18030 for Simplified Chinese(zh_CN.*)
• Big5 HKSCS for Hong Kong locale(zh_HK.*)
• Mail parse option –mail. Similar to a2ps -=mail .
• Base64 subject decode
• Codeset guessing from Content-Type header charset property.
• Circled digits support for iso-2022-jp.

Requirements:

• libgnome
• libgnomeprint

What’s New in This Release:

• Fix for setlocale() problem