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258 lines
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>Printing</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Tamil Linux HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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TITLE="GNOME"
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HREF="x349.html"><LINK
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TITLE="Word Processors, Office Packages"
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>Tamil Linux HOWTO</TH
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><H1
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NAME="AEN372"
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>9. Printing</H1
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>This section is all about getting high-quality Tamil
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output in printing. While it is one issue to load a binary font
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and start using Tamil in Linux, if your work is
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to destroy the forests, you need high-quality printing too!</P
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NAME="AEN375"
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>9.1. L<SUP
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>X</H2
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><P
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>L<SUP
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>A</SUP
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>T<SUB
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>X
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is perhaps the mother of all typographic systems. It frees the
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author from the trivia of typesetting and concentrate on
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the content. It does not use the <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>WYSWYG</SPAN
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> input,
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but the end result is great. Recent developments are centered
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toward internationalization. Unfortunately lack of unicode
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standard does not permit Tamil to be tried under the more
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ambitious Omega Project. Once again, workaround is the only
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way. A first step in Tamil has been attempted by Thuraiappah
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Vaseeharan. You may get the the package from the tamillinux.org
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site. The tar ball contains a great <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>readme</TT
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> file that
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describes the installation and usage. The tamiltex package
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does a short work by keeping all related stuff under one
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directory (which means that you need to keep your work under
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the same directory to compile your source files). But the great
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thing about this package is that it is compatible with both
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TSCII and TAB encodings and the results are just what you
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would expect from a
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L<SUP
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>A</SUP
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package - great!</P
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NAME="AEN386"
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></A
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>9.2. Postscript</H2
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><P
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>Many Linux applications use Ghostscript to print, which
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means that you must have Ghostscript configured if you want
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to use Tamil in printed documents. If
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L<SUP
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>A</SUP
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is there, can PostScript be far away? Not thanks to Vasee.
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Set the environment variable <TT
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CLASS="envar"
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>GS_FONTPATH</TT
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> to point
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to your TrueType font directory. For example, I have:</P
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="screen"
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> GS_FONTPATH=/usr/local/share/fonts/tamiltt
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export GS FONTPATH
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</PRE
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></FONT
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></TR
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></TABLE
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></P
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><P
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>You should be able to view Tamil PostScript files.</P
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NAME="AEN395"
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>9.3. PDF</H2
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><P
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>As of now, the only source to create PDF files is the
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PDF package. If you are able to successfully compile your
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source with the tamiltex package, use</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>pdflatex source.tex </B
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></P
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><P
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>to generate the PDF file. You should be able to view it, using
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<SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>xdvi</SPAN
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> or Adobe's Acroread for Linux.</P
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>Home</A
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