[ale] Display/Print PDF which contains double byte (Japanese) Characters under Gnome

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Tue Jul 1 10:37:24 EDT 2008


Well, as a dodge, I went and got the Adobe viewer and the  
Japanese char set and forgot to work on getting my native  
stuff working. I'll be looking around for the rpms for the  
kanji char set, which I forgot about entirely.

Thanks for the nudge!

On 06/30/2008 10:41:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hmm. 2 days since the original post. That doesn't bode
> well.
> 
> I going out on a limb here but Fedora includes the kanji
> character set which
> is 2-byte. I'm sure other distros have it as well. Maybe
> if that were
> installed along with the fonts it will become visible.
> 
> Can you take the pdf and do a pdf2ps | lpr (assuming a
> postscript capable
> printer)? That still may not work as needing to translate
> 2-byte to 1-byte
> characters will require knowledge of the original
> character set.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Thompson Freeman <
> tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I would love to borry a clue from somebody here. I have
> a
> > PDF file from a Japanese firm, allegedly already
> translated
> > into English. Well, actually, my brother confirms that
> it
> > _is_ in English, but uses a double byte character set
> for
> > the English characters, which will not display properly
> on
> > my Linux setup. Anybody know off hand how to get a Linux
> > setup, particularly Gnome, to display and/or print such
> a
> > beast?
> >
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