KANJIPS(1)

NAME
kanjips - scan convert japanese fonts to bitmap fonts in a PostScript document

SYNOPSIS
kanjips

DESCRIPTION
kanjips is a filter that reads PostScript files with Japanese fonts, and converts the fonts to a bitmap representation that is suitable for printing on a simple PostScript printer.

Even if Japanese PostScript fonts are available, it may be unadvisable to download megabytes of data just to print a single page in draft mode.

FILES
/usr/local/share/kanjips_fonts
    Path to the bitmap fonts jis24, jis32, jis48.

LIMITATIONS
kanjips is only configured to use bitmap fonts. It would also be able to use bdf X11 fonts or metafont pk fonts, but not, for instance, pcf fonts, which is what X11 currently uses.

kanjips is fairly simplistic in its recognition of japanese strings. The only program outputting PostScript that kanjips can process is probably jenscript(1).

kanjips uses a simple strategy and encodes bitmap fonts on a page basis. Hence, it does not cache data from printed page to printed page. Hence, it does only work with structured PostScript documents that use proper page boundaries.

SEE ALSO
jenscript(1)