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About ~~~~~ u2ps is text to postscript converter similar to a2ps, with emphasis on Unicode support. Key features: * utf8 support implemented (mostly) in PostScript * clean, readable and reasonably small output files * font subset embedding for Type 1 and Type 42 (TTF) fonts * ANSI control sequences support (color and font variants) Things missing at present: - proper combining mark positioning - reordering and ligatures - bidi support The tool should be usable on any reasonably sane system with Ghostscript installed. As long as the input does not stray too far from common left-to-right scripts and usable fonts are available, u2ps should work well. Current version is probably the last one using mostly-postscript mostly-font-agnostic approach; check TODO for further development ideas. Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Common C library, make and cc are needed to build u2ps. Font reduction needs ghostscript at runtime. ./configure --prefix=... make make install Unless told otherwise, u2ps defaults to FreeMono font. Make sure to have it installed. For hacking/debugging, run "./configure devel" instead, the resulting executable will work right from the source directory. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See man page and text files in doc/ directory. Sample usage ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The files in text/ directory may be used as a showcase for u2ps features. Assuming u2ps is built in devel mode (./configure devel), run ./u2ps text/ansi.txt ./u2ps text/alph.txt ./u2ps text/utf8.txt ./u2ps -2 -f FreeMono -f Kochi -f Tlwg text/alph.txt ./u2ps -2 -f FreeMono -f Kochi -f Tlwg text/utf8.txt The last two commands assume Kochi-Mincho (http://en.osdn.jp/projects/efont/) and Tlwg (http://linux.thai.net/projects/fonts-tlwg) fonts are installed in the system and Ghostscript knows where to find them. Sample usage with individual font setting: ./u2ps -2 -f FreeMono -fC:SawarabiGothic-Medium text/alph.txt This works for fonts not known to u2ps. Github note ~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a modernized version of my old project from Berlios, now rewritten in C, with lots of incompatible changes. Check perl branch for the original code if you need it. License ~~~~~~~ GPL v3, see LICENSE file Credits ~~~~~~~ Written by Alex Suykov <alex.suykov@gmail.com> with patches from Pierre Dehaen <dehaen@drever.be> and Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@tue.nl>
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