Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd?

Kurt Hackenberg kh at panix.com
Tue May 5 18:49:14 UTC 2020


On 2020-05-05 14:01, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> A PostScript translator (GhostScript or any other) can be expected to
> "raster" the PS input incorrectly if this input contains encodings it does
> not understand, or glyphs/fonts it is lacking.
> 
> I've seen so many problems with Cyrillic in my life, believe me. I've
> seen PDFs with some Cyrillic glyphs replaced by garbage, and much more
> of such weird stuff than I wish to see.


It would be nice if you could send plain Unicode to a printer. Ideally, 
I guess, either compressed or not -- UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. I don't 
expect it to happen.


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