uniprint - Man Page

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 font-set ]

uniprint is a program from the yudit package. It makes a formatted poscript  output that can be saved or directly sent to the printer. The program needs TrueType/OpenType/CFF fonts that have Unicode table  in order  to operate.

If you are running Linux you most probably have Unicode TrueType/OpenType fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory.

The postcript output contains all information needed to draw glyps.  No fonts are needed on the printer side. You may encounter problems with old ghostview or old printers.

-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 encoding methods 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 font-set

specifies the font to be used for printing.

font-set is the filename part of the font, like Arial.ttf or a font set, defined in yudit.properties as yudit.font.  For instance Terminal font-set that contains ipag.ttf,unifont.ttf can be used  if you have the following property in yudit.properties:

yudit.font.Terminal=ipag.ttf,unifont.ttf

By default  ~/.yudit/fonts, yudit.fontpath and /usr/share/yudit/fonts  are searched for font files. This option can be specified multiple times with font file names or only once if a yudit font-set is used.

~/.yudit/yudit.properties and /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties have yudit.fontpath and the font-sets defined.

uniconv

This program was written by  gaspar@yudit.org (Gaspar Sinai),  based upon the TrueType curve conversion code of ttf2pfa program that was written by Adrew Weeks. Last Updated Tokyo, 5 February, 2023.