suse 7.3 xemacs(mule) printing problem
How to tweak xemacs to print text files (including Japanese text)? My Suse 7.3 (german, professional) xemacs with Japanese support sends the text to the apsfilter but a2ps then fails. Sending euc encoded files directly to a2ps produces bakemoji, so my a2ps seems not to support Japanese. Is there a simpler solution than replacing a2ps with a patched version (as in http://www.on.cs.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/jp_a2ps.html) when I have all Japanese packages from Suse 7.3 (german, professional, dvd) installed? Also, there seems to be some unrelated encoding problem (see the end of this memo) that makes a2ps think a shifted-jis encoded file was sent to it instead of the normal euc encoded one (that is specified in xemacs). Printing Japanese html pages from netscape works fine, and gs can print latex'ed Japanese files fine. Some details: # a2ps --version GNU a2ps 4.13 After the failed printing from xemacs, I get the following mail From: (STDIN) <lp@linux.local> Subject: apsfilter: printer fault during job (STDIN) apsfilter: unable to print job (STDIN) Additionally, lpq -lllll reports (first failure after issuing a M-x ps-print-buffer, second failure after pressing the "Print" button): user@linux:~> lpq -lllll Printer: lp@linux 'y2prn_lp.upp auto' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA280linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:35:49.373 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:35:49.375 Status: removing job 'cfA280linux.local' - ABORT at 06:35:49.807 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 06:36:40.013 Status: subserver pid 1346 starting at 06:36:40.217 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 06:36:40.218 Status: printing job 'user@linux+344' at 06:36:40.219 Status: processing 'dfA344linux.local', size 13152, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 06:36:40.220 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%' at 06:36:47.890 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 06:36:47.892 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.683 Status: printing finished at 06:36:48.684 Status: finished 'user@linux+344', status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.684 Status: subserver pid 1346 exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.688 Status: job 'cfA344linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:36:48.723 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:36:48.726 Status: removing job 'cfA344linux.local' - ABORT at 06:36:49.217 Status: subserver pid 1964 starting at 09:43:42.917 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 09:43:42.935 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 09:43:43.408 Status: printing job 'user@linux+962' at 09:43:43.436 Status: processing 'dfA962linux.local', size 146, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 09:43:43.437 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'a2ps: unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'' at 09:43:49.574 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: closefile ]%%' at 09:43:55.702 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 09:43:55.705 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.540 Status: printing finished at 09:43:57.541 Status: finished 'user@linux+962', status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.541 Status: subserver pid 1964 exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.622 Status: job 'cfA962linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 09:43:57.722 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 09:43:57.725 Status: removing job 'cfA962linux.local' - ABORT at 09:43:58.213 As mentioned in the beginning, the "unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'" is also weird since (I believe) I set xemacs to encode files as euc-jp. I may be wrong, but I copied everything from http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/emacs-and-xemacs.html to my ~/.xemacs/init.el file. Thanks for any simple help and best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Wolfgang Slany <wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
How to tweak xemacs to print text files (including Japanese text)?
I think that doesn't work yet from XEmacs, unfortunately.
My Suse 7.3 (german, professional) xemacs with Japanese support sends the text to the apsfilter but a2ps then fails. Sending euc encoded files directly to a2ps produces bakemoji, so my a2ps seems not to support Japanese. Is there a simpler solution than replacing a2ps with a patched version (as in http://www.on.cs.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/jp_a2ps.html) when I have all Japanese packages from Suse 7.3 (german, professional, dvd) installed?
There is the Perl script a2ps.pl by Kazumasa Utashiro <utashiro@iij.ad.jp> mfabian@gregory:~$ rpm -ql a2ps-perl-ja /usr/bin/a2ps.pl /usr/share/doc/packages/a2ps-perl-ja /usr/share/doc/packages/a2ps-perl-ja/Copyright mfabian@gregory:~$ I'm almost sure that it is already available on the German SuSE Linux 7.3 CDs/DVD. If not it can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/j2/a2ps-perl-ja.rpm The command line options of a2ps.pl are completely different to those of the a2ps. Have a look at the output of 'a2ps -help'. The options are a bit confusing. An example a2ps.pl -p -ns -nh -nt -fx1.2 euc-jp-encoded-file > /tmp/ttt.ps will produce a Postcript file in portrait orientation, without any page numbers, headers, frames, ..., just the plain text, magnified by a factor of '1.2'. This PostScript file can be printed on a Japanese PostScript printer or with Ghostscript which is automatically used by the SuSE print filter system if you have configured your printer as a non-PostScript printer. [...]
Printing Japanese html pages from netscape works fine, and gs can print latex'ed Japanese files fine.
Then you will be able to print the files produced by a2ps.pl without problems with lpr, or you can directly pipe the output of a2ps to lpr. [...]
Additionally, lpq -lllll reports (first failure after issuing a M-x ps-print-buffer, second failure after pressing the "Print" button):
user@linux:~> lpq -lllll Printer: lp@linux 'y2prn_lp.upp auto'
[...]
Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'a2ps: unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'' at 09:43:49.574
[...]
As mentioned in the beginning, the "unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'" is also weird
I don't know where this ja_jp.sjis comes from.
since (I believe) I set xemacs to encode files as euc-jp. I may be wrong, but I copied everything from http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/emacs-and-xemacs.html to my ~/.xemacs/init.el file.
That file sets the default coding system for new buffers to iso-2022-8: (when (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (set-default-buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-2022-8)) See 'M-x describe-variable RET buffer-file-coding-system RET' on why this is a good choice. Setting this to iso-2022-jp or euc-jp instead causes problems with international mail in Gnus. But anyway, the buffer-file-coding-system has nothing to do with your problem. You wrote that you used 'M-x ps-print-buffer'. This should produce a correct PostScript file independent of the buffer-file-coding-system. buffer-file-coding-system is only relevant for IO to disk. But converting the buffer contents to PostScript happens within XEmacs where the internal buffer representation is used (internal mule encoding). This internal buffer representation has all the information about the charsets used in the buffer and ps-print.el should be able to generate a correct PostScript file from that. But the current implementation of ps-print.el in XEmacs is not multibyte capable and if you have Japanese characters in the buffer, the resulting PostScript file is just wrong. You can have a look at the PostScript file by using C-u M-x ps-print-buffer RET filename.ps RET This works much better in GNU Emacs (20.7 or 21.x). GNU Emacs has a 'better' multibyte capable implementation of ps-print.el. Have a look at the top part of /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/ps-mule.el to see how to use it. For Japanese, use (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'non-latin-printer) then you will get PostScript output which uses the fonts in the Printer or Ghostscript which look nice. If you want to print all sorts of languages together, you can install ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/gra2/intlfonts-bdf.rpm and then use (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'bdf-font) Using that you can even print everything displayed on the 'hello page' (M-x view-hello-file), but bitmap fonts will be embedded in the PostScript output which will look quite ugly. Personally I use mainly XEmacs and when I want to print a buffer containing Japanese I save it to disk first and use a2ps.pl. Of course it would be nice to have a better ps-print.el in XEmacs as well and when I find some time I want to try whether I can make the ps-print.el from GNU Emacs work with XEmacs. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Mike Fabian wrote:
Wolfgang Slany <wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
How to tweak xemacs to print text files (including Japanese text)?
I think that doesn't work yet from XEmacs, unfortunately.
[...]
There is the Perl script a2ps.pl by Kazumasa Utashiro <utashiro@iij.ad.jp>
[...]
I'm almost sure that it is already available on the German SuSE Linux 7.3 CDs/DVD. If not it can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/j2/a2ps-perl-ja.rpm
The command line options of a2ps.pl are completely different to those of the a2ps. Have a look at the output of 'a2ps -help'.
[...]
This PostScript file can be printed on a Japanese PostScript printer or with Ghostscript which is automatically used by the SuSE print filter system if you have configured your printer as a non-PostScript printer.
a2ps.pl was indeed installed and prints the Japanese files as described. To get xemacs to print from the button, I added the following Perl script to /usr/bin: a2ps-lpr.pl: ============================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl ;# ;# a2ps-lpr.pl: ascii to ps | lpr ;# open F, "| a2ps.pl -p -ns -nh -nt -fx1.5 | lpr"; while (<>) { print F; } close F; =============================================================== Additionally, I added the following lines to /home/user/.xemacs/init.el: =============================================================== ;;---------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Print Japanese: (when (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (setq lpr-command "a2ps-lpr.pl")) =============================================================== Many thanks and best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Wolfgang Slany <wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes: [...]
a2ps.pl was indeed installed and prints the Japanese files as described. To get xemacs to print from the button, I added the following Perl script to /usr/bin:
a2ps-lpr.pl: ============================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl ;# ;# a2ps-lpr.pl: ascii to ps | lpr ;#
open F, "| a2ps.pl -p -ns -nh -nt -fx1.5 | lpr";
while (<>) { print F; }
close F; ===============================================================
Additionally, I added the following lines to /home/user/.xemacs/init.el: ===============================================================
;;---------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Print Japanese:
(when (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (setq lpr-command "a2ps-lpr.pl")) ===============================================================
Good idea! That's a really convenient workaround. I wrote that I wanted to try whether the ps-print.el of GNU Emacs can be made to work with XEmacs. It looks like somebody has already done this and recent versions of the XEmacs Sumo tarballs already contain a recent version of ps-print.el taken from GNU Emacs. I.e. ps-print.el for XEmacs will likely work as soon as I update XEmacs. I'll try to do that during the next weeks and upload the new rpms to the SuSE ftp server. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
When building Magicpoint (mgp.rpm) for SuSE Linux 8.0, a configure option was forgotten which is necessary to support CJK TrueType fonts via freetype. A fixed package which works with CJK TrueType fonts is available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mgp.rpm Description : MagicPoint is a X11-based presentation tool. It is designed to make simple presentations easy while to make complicated presentations possible. Its presentation file (whose suffix is typically .mgp) is just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with your favorite editor (e.g. Emacs). The package also includes the tools mgp2html, mgp2ps and mgp2latex, which convert mgp-Presentations into other file formats. Authors: -------- Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@sfc.wide.ad.jp> -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> writes:
I.e. ps-print.el for XEmacs will likely work as soon as I update XEmacs.
I have updated the XEmacs packages for SuSE Linux now. The core XEmacs is updated to version 21.4.6 and the lisp packages are updated to the Sumo packages release from 2002-03-29. The updated packages are available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/xemacs-21.4.6-3.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/xemacs-el-21.4.6-3.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/xemacs-info-21.4.6-3.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/xemacs-21.4.6-3.src.rpm Using these packages, M-x ps-print-buffer and M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces or the 'pretty print' entry in the file menu work for CJK and many other languages now. When using these functions to print, XEmacs will generate the PostScript, you don't need any external a2ps converter [1]. Extract from the comments at the top of /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ps-print/ps-mule.el which explains the options to control the font selection for multilingual printing: ;; Printing Multi-byte Buffer ;; -------------------------- ;; ;; The variable `ps-multibyte-buffer' specifies the ps-print multi-byte buffer ;; handling. ;; ;; Valid values for `ps-multibyte-buffer' are: ;; ;; nil This is the value to use the default settings which ;; is by default for printing buffer with only ASCII ;; and Latin characters. The default setting can be ;; changed by setting the variable ;; `ps-mule-font-info-database-default' differently. ;; The initial value of this variable is ;; `ps-mule-font-info-database-latin' (see ;; documentation). ;; ;; `non-latin-printer' This is the value to use when you have a japanese ;; or korean PostScript printer and want to print ;; buffer with ASCII, Latin-1, Japanese (JISX0208 and ;; JISX0201-Kana) and Korean characters. At present, ;; it was not tested the Korean characters printing. ;; If you have a korean PostScript printer, please, ;; test it. ;; ;; `bdf-font' This is the value to use when you want to print ;; buffer with BDF fonts. BDF fonts include both latin ;; and non-latin fonts. BDF (Bitmap Distribution ;; Format) is a format used for distributing X's font ;; source file. BDF fonts are included in ;; `intlfonts-1.2' which is a collection of X11 fonts ;; for all characters supported by Emacs. In order to ;; use this value, be sure to have installed ;; `intlfonts-1.2' and set the variable ;; `bdf-directory-list' appropriately (see ps-bdf.el ;; for documentation of this variable). ;; ;; `bdf-font-except-latin' This is like `bdf-font' except that it is used ;; PostScript default fonts to print ASCII and Latin-1 ;; characters. This is convenient when you want or ;; need to use both latin and non-latin characters on ;; the same buffer. See `ps-font-family', ;; `ps-header-font-family' and `ps-font-info-database'. ;; ;; Any other value is treated as nil. ;; ;; The default is nil. If you want to print only ASCII, Latin-1 and Japanese (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'non-latin-printer) is best because PostScript fonts are used which look nice. When using bitmap fonts for printing with (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'bdf-font) you can print more different languages (but of course using low resolution bitmap fonts will look less beautiful, so this is not a good setting of you want to print only Japanese). For the printing with bitmap fonts you also need the GNU intlfonts in bdf format, available here for SuSE Linux 7.3 and 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/gra2/intlfonts-bdf.rpm With these fonts you can print most languages from the HELLO page M-x view-hello-file except Amharic, Thai, and Tigrina. These three languages can be printed with GNU Emacs but not yet with XEmacs. I had to patch ps-mule.el a little bit to make printing with bdf-fonts work at all with XEmacs, but I could not yet find out how to make it work for Amharic, Thai, and Tigrigna. Therefore, when you want to test bdf-font printing with the hello file, remove the lines with theses languages, otherwise you will get an error (or, better, don't remove these lines, find out how to make it work and tell me :-)). Footnotes: [1] for Wolfgang: this means you must remove your (setq lpr-command "a2ps-lpr.pl") hack if you want to use these new features. Otherwise a2ps.pl will do a ASCII -> PostScript conversion again on the output which is already PostScript. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
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