id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1689	New package: PAPS-0.6	alexander@…	bdubbs@…	"PAPS is a command line tool that converts UTF-8 encoded text files to   PostScript. This would be a nice addition to the Printing section of the book,   since neither A2PS nor Enscript support UTF-8 as the input encoding.   
  

Dependencies: Pango (required), Doxygen (easy to avoid). 

The build instructions are just {{{./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install}}} if one has Doxygen installed. A way to avoid this dependency is:   
{{{ 
./configure --prefix=/usr   
make DOXYGEN=true   
make DOXYGEN=true -k install   
}}}   
This does result in a fully functional installation, but without documentation.

One can then install TrueType fonts and test PAPS with this command:   
src/test_libpaps >test.ps (then view test.ps with your favourite PostScript viewer). Note that you must have TrueType fonts for all of the languages mentioned in that test file.

Then one can invoke the converter with a command similar to the following:   
   
paps --family monospace UTF-8-demo.txt > UTF-8-demo.ps   
 
Once PAPS is in the BLFS book, I will remove the statement about ""inability to print plain-text UTF-8 files from the command line"" from the UTF-8 LFS book."	enhancement	closed	normal	6.2.0	BOOK	SVN	low	fixed