Converts one text file at a time into a printable PostScript file
and then submits it to the printer queue.
Characters can be printed in the standard font or in bold.
The following codesets are supported on OpenVMS systems:
Codeset Codeset Name
--------- ------------
DECHANYU DECHanyu for Traditional Chinese (Plane 1 and Plane 2 only)
DECHANZI DECHanzi for Simplified Chinese
DECKOREAN DECKorean for Korean
GB18030 GB18030-2000 for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
ISO8859-1 ISO Latin-1
ISO8859-2 ISO Latin-2
ISO8859-5 ISO Latin-5
ISO8859-7 ISO Latin-7
ISO8859-8 ISO Latin-8
ISO8859-9 ISO Latin-9
SDECKANJI Super DEC Kanji for Japanese
TACTIS TIS-620 for Thai
All of these codesets are supported by WWPPS, but fonts can be
associated with only one language at a time for each codeset.
WWPPS also supports Unicode character conversion for all of
these codesets except Thai. A Unicode character is converted to
a character in one of these codesets; then the font supporting
that codeset is used for the character in the PostScript file.
If a character cannot be converted, it is printed as a space.
Format:
PRINT/QUEUE=queue-name [/qualifiers] file-spec
The /QUEUE qualifier is required on all PRINT commands to specify
the name of the queue to which the text file specified by file-spec
should be sent.
Example:
WWPPS> PRINT/QUEUE=PRT_QUEUE/LOCALE=EN_US_ISO8859-1 REPORT.TXT
This command submits file REPORT.TXT to the PRT_QUEUE printer
queue to be printed in American English.
1 /COPIES
/COPIES=n Specifies the number of copies to be printed. The default number of copies is 1.
2 /INDENTATION
/INDENTATION=n Specifies the number of characters to indent from the left margin. The default is /INDENTATION=0 (no indentation). The maximum value allowed depends on the specified (or default) values for /PAPER_SIZE and /ORIENTATION. /PAPER_SIZE /ORIENTATION Maximum value for /INDENTATION LETTER PORTRAIT 39 A4 PORTRAIT 38 LETTER LANDSCAPE 65 A4 LANDSCAPE 67
3 /LENGTH
/LENGTH=n Specifies page length as the number of lines. The default length is 66 lines for LETTER size and 68 lines for A4 size.
4 /LOCALE
/LOCALE=locale-name
Specifies the locale setting in which the WWPPS converts the
input file. You do not need to specify /LOCALE for text files
in Unicode format (UTF-30).
Locales are constructed using the following convention:
language_country_codeset.LOCALE
The language and country are each two characters, as defined by
the OSF naming conventions. (See the /LOCALE subtopics for
possible values.) For example, EN_US_ISO8859-1 represents
the locale for English spoken in the United States.
By default, WWPPS uses the system-specified or process-specified
locale. If there is no system-specified or process-specified
locale, the default is /LOCALE=C.
To display the locale specified on your system, enter the
following command:
$ LOCALE SHOW PUBLIC
Example:
WWPPS> PRINT/QUEUE=QUEUE1/LOCALE=ZH_TW_DECHANYU REPLY.TXT
This command submits the file REPLY.TXT to the QUEUE1 printer
queue and prints it in the Traditional Chinese locale for
Taiwan (TW) using the DEC Hanyu codeset.
4.1 – Language and Country Codes
The following list aligns language codes and country codes
that are commonly associated with each other.
Language code -> Language Country code -> Country
CA Catalan ES Spain
ES Spanish
CS Czech CZ Czech Republic
DA Danish DK Denmark
DE German CH Switzerland
DE Germany
EL Greek GR Greece
EN English GB Great Britain
US United States
FI Finnish FI Finland
FR French BE Belgium
CA Canada
FR France
HE Hebrew IL Israel
IW Hebrew
HU Hungarian HU Hungary
IS Icelandic IS Iceland
IT Italian IT Italy
JA Japanese JP Japan
KO Korean KR Korea
LT Lithuanian LT Lithuania
NL Dutch NL Netherlands
NO Norwegian NO Norway
PL Polish PL Poland
PT Portuguese PT Portugal
RU Russian RU Russia
SK Slovak SK Slovakia
SL Slovene SI Slovenia
SV Swedish SE Sweden
TH Thai TH Thailand
ZH Chinese HK Hong Kong
TW Taiwan
CN People's Republic
of China
4.2 – Codeset Codes
The following codesets are supported on OpenVMS systems: Codeset Codeset Name --------- ------------ DECHANYU DECHanyu for Traditional Chinese (Plane 1 and Plane 2 only) DECHANZI DECHanzi for Simplified Chinese DECKOREAN DECKorean for Korean GB18030 GB18030-2000 for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese ISO8859-1 ISO Latin-1 ISO8859-2 ISO Latin-2 ISO8859-5 ISO Latin-5 ISO8859-7 ISO Latin-7 ISO8859-8 ISO Latin-8 ISO8859-9 ISO Latin-9 SDECKANJI Super DEC Kanji for Japanese TACTIS TIS-620 for Thai
5 /ORIENTATION
/ORIENTATION=logical-orientation Specifies the orientation of printed output on the logical page as PORTRAIT (default) or LANDSCAPE.
6 /PAPER_SIZE
/PAPER_SIZE=logical-size Specifies the size of the paper as LETTER (default) or A4.
7 /RANGE
/RANGE=m:n Specifies the range of pages to be printed, starting with page number m and ending with page number n. Or, instead of specifying a range of pages, you can specify ODD to print only odd-numbered pages or specify EVEN to print only even-numbered pages. By default, the entire document is printed.
8 /VERTICAL
/VERTICAL /NOVERTICAL (default) Specifies vertical writing mode for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese multibyte characters. When /VERTICAL is specified, multibyte characters are rotated counterclockwise by 90 degrees and printed in lines from left to right; when the printed page is rotated 90 degrees clockwise, the characters can be read in vertical lines from right to left. In vertical mode, single-byte characters in languages such as English are still printed horizontally from left to right.
9 /WIDTH
/WIDTH=n Specifies the width of the page in columns. Valid values are as follows: 80 (for LETTER size paper and PORTRAIT orientation) 132 (for LETTER size paper and LANDSCAPE orientation) 78 (for A4 size paper and PORTRAIT orientation) 136 (for A4 size paper and LANDSCAPE orientation) The default value is /WIDTH=80.