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Re: hebrew printing



Hi

You have two different problems here

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Ishai Parasol wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is there a way to print hebrew characters with the printer ? How ?
> I tried to print in hebrew with netscape 

Here you have something already in postscript. The problem is that your
printer doesn't understand the font used by netscape or something similar.
I rememebr someone wrote a print filter for that. I'll check this later.
But if someone in the list actually uses this filter (or anything else) --
please reply.

> and with my 
> "hebgtk'ed" editor

Is the text in visual Hebrew or in logical Hebrew? In the latter case some
software compoenet has to format it to visual Hebrew before printing.
One simple way to do that is using the fribidi executable that comes with
the fribidi package. See ftp://linux.org.il/pub/Hebrew/Scripts/log2vis

Another thing that has to be handled is the font. I dont know postscript
well, but I'll refer you to a post by me to ivrix-discuss (from end of
September) about printing .

> but with no success. I use RH6.2 with HP Deskjet 840c, configured with
> aspfilter-4.9.9 as cdj670 (the closest driver i could find).

Or maybe usin postscript here is the wrong way to go with this filter ?

> 
> TIA,
> Ishai.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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