try using pdf creator and make it shared, then you can use it have you tested printing a plain text from command shell eg my.txt > lpt1 or the like
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: > > Hi, > > I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am > unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) > from commandline. > > On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now all umlauts are > replaced by strange characters (i.e. the u with diaeresis appears as a > capital A with a tilde and '1/4'). The same happens with lpr. The files > print fine using the Windows text editor. > > I'm using mintty on Windows Vista Business and nano to produce the files. > Files with umlauts are recognized as UTF-8 by the file command. > > Is there an alternative to a2ps or a fix/workaround? > > Thanks in advance! > > Niklaus > > $ a2ps --version > GNU a2ps 4.13 > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.0 machinename 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin > > $ mintty --version > mintty 0.5.6 > > $ nano --version > GNU nano Version 2.0.9 (compiliert um 13:11:06, Oct 19 2008) > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-print-textfiles-in-Cygwin-1.7--tp27128849p27137998.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
