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Information on how to enable printing Japanese document under Slackware-11.0
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I'm a Slackware user in Japan.
Here is additional short information about how to enable printing Japanese document
under Slackware-11.0.
*** Short How to ***
Slackware-11.0 comes with espgs-8.15.3svn185 which has CJK printing support.
However, it's not enough for printing Japanese document.
You don't have to rebuild espgs, but need extra files in /usr/share/ghostscript directory.
1. Add extra files to espgs directory(/usr/share/ghostscript)
Files you may need are
* ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
* ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz
* adobe-cmaps-200406.tar.gz
* acro5-cmaps-2001.tar.gz
2. Edit /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/lib/
cidfmap and /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/lib/
FAPIcidfmap
Espgs-8.15.3svn185 can handle TrueType fonts for printing.
In order to use TrueType fonts with espgs, you have to edit and make usable config files
such as cidfmap or FAPIcidfmap.
3. Of course, Japanese TrueType fonts should be installed.
It's better to put Japanese TrueType fonts in espgs's default search PATH.
(You can know espgs's font search path by command "
gs -h".)
Some good Japanese TrueType fonts :
* sazanami-20040629.tar.bz2 (8.4 MB)
Get here
* mixfont-mplus-ipa-TrueType-20060520.tar.bz2 (16MB)
Get here
* opfc-ModuleHP-1.1.1_withIPAMonaFonts-1.0.5.tar.gz
Get here
Please see more detail at
Printing Japanese document under Slackware-11.0.
