Available fonts and printers

Scripts are provided to get information about the available fonts and printers for that machine.

The scripts can be found in the in the $GREDIR/bin directory. The scripts are executed from the command line.

fontinfo - Lists the fonts available on your server.
fontinfopdf - Lists only the fonts that can be used in PDF files.
printerinfo - Lists the available printers.
For additional information about the use of printerinfo, see Support for custom paper sources.

What printers are supported?

The printerinfo script lists the available printers, however not all available printers are supported.

The printers supported must be graphical printers.

On Windows™, a Windows printer driver for the printer in question must be installed.
On UNIX™, the printer must support Postscript or a converter from Postscript to the printer's native language (typically a ghostscript backend) must be installed and configured.

Plain text printers or bar code printers with proprietary control languages are not supported.

Search the internet for Windows drivers for some brands of thermal transfer bar code printers when the vendor does not provide a driver, as others have specialized in providing such drivers.

Do not use dot matrix printers in graphical mode, even if the drivers exist. The speed is typically too slow, and the print results are poor.

UNIX and CUPS

CUPS should be used if available. Direct the browser to http://host:631. Always make use of the "print the test page" option during the installation.
If CUPS is not available and the printer is listed in printerinfo but does not work, test if any other graphical application (such as OpenOffice or FireFox) can print to that printer.