.\" @(#)uniconv 1.1 97/11/5
.TH UNIPRINT 1 "Nov 25 1997" "LINUX COMMANDS" "LINUX COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
.LP
uniprint \- produce postscript output from unicode text for printing
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.B uniprint
[
.BI "-out " output-file
]
[
.BI "-in " input-file
]
[
.BI "-decode encoding
]
[
.BI "-printer " printer
]
[
.BI "-L "
]
[
.BI "-media " media
]
[
.BI -us 
]
[
.BI -nus 
]
[
.BI -break 
]
[
.BI -wrap 
]
[
.BI "-left "
]
[
.BI "-right "
]
[
.BI "-size " font-size
]
[
.BI "-hsize " header-font-size
]
[
.BI "-font " truetype-font-file
]
.LP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B  uniprint
is a program from the yudit distribution. It makes a formatted poscript 
output that can be saved or directly sent to the printer.
The program needs a TrueType font that has unicode table in order  to 
operate.
.sp
If you are running Linux you most probably have unicode truetype fonts,
because there are very few vendors, if any. who give discount if you do not
buy Windows. If you are running other Unices it is still possible to 
get a freely available font. I have made ciberbit.ttf a default font for
uniprint, mainly because it is freely downloadable from 
http://www.bitstream.com/.
.sp
The postcript output contains all drawing information. No extra 
fonts are needed, and it can be printed on any postscript printer.
You may encounter probkems with old ghostview or old printers. I used
this program with ghostscript 5.10 because 2.6.2 gave me stack overflow
error.
.LP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI "-out " ouput-file
Do not sent the output to the printer, put it in the file instead.
If the 
.B '-'
character is specified, send the postscript data  to the standard output.
.TP
.BI "-in " input-file
If specified read the document from a file. Read stdin otherwise.
.TP
.BI "-decode " encoding
specifies the encoding of the input text. 
All encodings that are available for
.B uniconv
can be used. If not specified encoding is set to utf-8.
.TP
.BI "-printer " printer
Send the postscript output to printer through the 'lpr -P Printer' 
command. 
.TP
.B "-break " 
option makes this program print a graphical representation of
line breaking characters.

.TP
.B "-us " 
option turns on uniscribe emulation. For some
scripts emulation is turned on by default. 

.TP
.B "-nus " 
option turns off uniscribe emulation. For some scripts emulation 
is turned off by default.

.TP
.B "-wrap " 
option makes this program do a simplistic line breaking on
word boundaries.

.TP
.B "-left " 
option sets the embedding of the document to Left.

.TP
.B "-right " 
option sets the embedding of the document to Right.

.TP
.B "-L " 
Selects landscape printing. The default is portrait. 

.TP
.BI "-media " media
Sets paper size. The default is A4. The following 
.I media 
values are accepted:
.I A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, Executive, Folio, Ledger, Legal, Letter, Quarto, Statement, Tabloid

.TP
.BI "-size " font-size
sets the size of the font for the text body in 
.B points.
.TP
.BI "-hsize " heder-font-size
sets the size of the font for the header in 
.B points.
If zero size is specified, no header is printed.
.TP
.BI "-font " truetype-font
specifies the font to be used for printing. 

.I truetype-font
is the full pathname of the font, like
.B /somepath/myfonts/cyberbit.ttf
or just the name of the file
.B cyberbit.ttf.
The fonts are searched using  yudit.fontpath property 
in ~/.yudit/yudit.properties or @YUDIT_DATA@/config/yudit.properties.
directory where the font files are kept. 
By default @YUDIT_DATA@/fonts and ~/.yudit/fonts are searched.
This option can be specified multiple times, to create a virtual font.
.SH FILES
~/.yudit/yudit.properties or @YUDIT_DATA@/config/yudit.properties
can have yudit.fontpath and yudit.datapath properties. 
The former is where the font files, the latter is where the map files 
are kept.
By default @YUDIT_DATA@/fonts is searched.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR
uniconv
.SH AUTHOR
.LP
This program  was written by gsinai@iname.com (Gaspar Sinai), 
using the code of 
.B ttf2pfa 
program that was written by Adrew Weeks.
Last Updated
Tokyo, 2 November, 2001.
