CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert
to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print
command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS,
KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported.
ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/packages/nihongo/cnprint320.readme
CNPRINT also has many other features, among them:
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print all CJK codes using a single Unicode CJK font
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print GB using Big5 fonts or print Big5 using GB fonts
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multiple column, vertical printing, change font or character size within
document
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intellegent treatment of punctuations
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phrase-based GB<->BIG5 conversions and built-in HZ<->GB conversion
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repair/re-format functions for CJK text
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envelope or address label printing
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decode MIME quoted printable (=20=3C=5E like text)
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true type fonts (TTF) support (since version 3.00/3.01)
The main new features of the current version (released on June 14, 2000):
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Add format 4 true type font (TTF) support
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Refined unicode handling, add UTF-16 (BE or LE) support. Now support
UTF-7, UTF-8 and UTF-16, from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF.
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Map GB/Big5/JIS/KSC codes to unicode in order to use unicode TTF font
(use -f=unicode_ttf_font_file option).
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unicode <-> CJK code conversions
-uni2gb, -uni2b5, -uni2ksc, -uni2jis
-gb2uni, -b52uni, -ksc2uni, -jis2uni
use -utf(utf8)(utf16) to specify input/output unicode type
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add convert_and_print option (-print), e.g. convert GB to Big5 and
use Big5 font to print
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-label mode optionally ignore the EOL right after @[LBxx] (see
file cnprint.cmd for detail)
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MIME quoted printable auto detection
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DOS version (V3.21) created with a 32-bit compiler.
documented on: 2002.01.23
