Re: Still Unable to Print in Russian

[Harold Crouch <harold@cmh.net>]

I now understand that I did not ask the correct question.  The correct
question is: Where can I find MATCHING screen (bitmap - pcf) and
printer (Postscript - pfa/pfb) fonts in KOI8-R encoding?

-Harold


Fedor Zuev <fedor@earth.crust.irk.ru> wrote:
FZ> You need or
FZ> 
FZ> 	1) (right, but looong way) instruct all programs, which
FZ> generate PostScript, to use specific -urw- font names instead of
FZ> standart names (Helvetica, Courier, Times).
FZ> 
FZ> 	2) (quick dirty hack) change standart ghostscript font names
FZ> to point it to font with cyrillic glyphs. For example: I use fonts
FZ> from scalable-cyrfonts debian package for printing. And I add to
FZ> end of Fontmap (specifically, to
FZ> /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/Fontmap, but I believe there is a
FZ> more correct way to do so) such lines
FZ> 
FZ> ----------------
FZ> /Times-Roman /NimbusRomanCYR-Regu ;
FZ> /Times-Italic /NimbusRomanCYR-ReguItal ;
FZ> /Times-BoldItalic /NimbusRomCYR-MediItal ;
FZ> /Times-Bold  /NimbusRomCYR-Medi ;
FZ> 
FZ> /Courier-Oblique /NimbusMonCYR-ReguObli ;
FZ> /Courier /NimbusMonCYR-Regu ;
FZ> /Courier-Bold /NimbusMonCYR-Bold ;
FZ> /Courier-BoldOblique /NimbusMonCYR-BoldObli ;
FZ> 
FZ> /Helvetica /NimbusSansCYR-Regu ;
FZ> /Helvetica-Oblique /NimbusSansCYR-ReguItal ;
FZ> /Helvetica-Bold /NimbusSansCYR-Bold ;
FZ> /Helvetica-BoldOblique /NimbusSansCYR-BoldItal ;
FZ> /Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique /NimbusSansCYR-BoldCondItal ;
FZ> ----------------
FZ> 
FZ> 	This method may somewhat damage display and|or printing
FZ> quality of non-cyrillic postcscript files.