Re: `pr' command

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 04/28/2008 09:04 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> On 04/27/2008 10:07 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> > > I want to set at my pleasure the page margins when printing a document edited
> > > with gedit, but apparently this seems not be possible.  Is there anyone who
> > > has any experience with problem?
>
>
>
> "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > The "pr" command may be of help to you.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> Well, it's strange: if I do:
>
>  $ pr filename
>
> , the chinese characters included in the document are wonderfully shown on the
> terminal; but if I do:
>
>  $ pr filename | lp
>
> , they are not printed.
>
> Any idea of how to work the problem out?  I have Debian Etch.
>
> Thanks indeed
> Rodolfo

Evidently your printer doesn't have Chinese glyphs built-in :-)

Use Abiword instead of pr and gedit. Abiword will create a nice 
Postscript file that will contain rendered versions of the Chinese 
characters. The printer will be able to handle that.