Yidao Cai's Software Page: CNPRINT Download

Yidao Cai's Software Page: Download CNPRINT

To download files, press the right button of the mouse while on link, then select "save link as"
To save space, some files are compressed using gzip. You may find a DOS version of gzip here. To use, type "gzip -d file.gz".
Some sample usages can be found here.

V3.30b (beta version), last modified on May 11, 2001.

release note
cnprint330b.c (May 11, 2001)
ttfb330b.c (May 8, 2001) patch to ttfb330.c (July 30, 2002)
cnprint330b.hlp (May 11, 2001)
Other files introduced or updated since V3.30
- updated cnprint.cmd: cnprint33.cmd
- ASCII font list file: cnprint.afl
- sample font metric file (for Helvetica font): helvet.dat

V3.20/3.21, released on June 14, 2000.

Packages [release note]
Individual files contained in the packages
- Linux executable file: cnprint320.linux
- VMS executable file: cnprint320.exe
- DOS executable file: cnprint321.exe
- Source code (for UNIX and VMS) cnprint320.c, ttfb320.c
- help file (DOS, VMS, Unix/Linux): cnprint320.help
- configuration file (DOS, VMS, Unix/Linux): cnprint.cmd
You will also need CJK<->unicode conversion tables in order to print all CJK codes using a single unicode CJK font (see below).

The "last" beta of V3.10/3.11 (March 20, 1999)

Earlier versions can be found here.

Conversion Tables

CJK <-> unicode conversion tables needed to print all CJK codes using a single unicode CJK font

gb2312.uni and jis0208.uni are updated on May 24, 2001, with "bug" fix by Alan Thwaits
All tables in a single tar.gz file uni.tar.gz (217 Kb)
Individual tables:
- gb2312.uni (104 Kb)
- big5.uni (192 Kb)
- jis0208.uni (96 Kb)
- ksc5601n.uni (239 Kb)

GB <-> Big5 Conversion tables

Character based g2bchar.tab
Phrase based g2bword.tab

Selected fonts

Unicode: These TTF fonts can be used for printing Chinese, Japanese and Korean (all code types). They were developed by Stone Corp. Zhuhai, China, or "ShiTong" in Chinese, if "Stone" does not mean anything to you. These fonts came with IE 5.0 or 5.5 International Edition, so check your C:\windows\fonts directory, you may already have them.
- Songti or Song Style: mssong.ttf.gz (1456 Kb), mssong.htf
- Heiti or Bold Style: mshei.ttf.gz (1060 Kb), mshei.htf
Big5:
GB:
48x48 bitmap Song style: cc48s.hbf, cc48.sym.gz (66 Kb), cc48s.1.gz (461 Kb), cc48s.2.gz (392 Kb)
JIS:
KSC:

Filters for unix

"cnprint -out inputfile | lpr -Pmyprinter" will work.
A shell program to let you specify a second printer: cnprint.2nd_printer,
Sample printcap file to setup a print queue using cnprint as a filter cnprint.filter_script

This page was created on June 20, 2000. Last modified on November 22, 2005.
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