Since Postscript itself does not support Unicode fonts, the burden of Unicode support in printing is on the program creating the Postscript document, not on the Postscript renderer. .:: www.bestloveweddingstudio.com ::.
The existing Postscript fonts I've seen - .pfa/.pfb/.afm/.pfm/.gsf - support only a small range of glyphs and are not Unicode fonts.
Both the uniprint and wprint programs produce good printed output for Unicode plain text. They require a TrueType font; see section "TrueType fonts" above. The Bitstream Cyberbit gives good results. .:: telegra.ph ::. .:: telegra.ph ::.
The "uniprint" program contained in the yudit package can convert a text
file to Postscript. For uniprint to find the Cyberbit font, symlink it to
.:: podcasts.apple.com ::. /usr/local/share/yudit/data/cyberbit.ttf.
The "wprint" (WorldPrint) program by Eduardo Trapani http://ttt.esperanto.org.uy/programoj/angle/wprint.html postprocesses Postscript output produced by Netscape Communicator or Mozilla from HTML pages or plain text files.
The output is nearly perfect; only in Cyrillic paragraphs the line breaking is incorrect: the lines are only about half as wide as they should be. .:: telegra.ph ::. [Reference: Search algorithm]
For plain text, uniprint has a better overall layout. On the other hand, only wprint gets Thai output correct. .:: telegra.ph ::. .:: suzuri.jp ::.
Generally, printing using fixed-size fonts does not give an as professional output as using TrueType fonts.
The txtbdf2ps 0.7 program by Serge Winitzki http://members.linuxstart.com/~winitzki/txtbdf2ps.html .:: management.ju.edu.jo ::. .:: podcasts.apple.com ::. converts a plain text file to Postscript, by use of a BDF font. Installation: .:: groups.google.com ::.
# install -m 777 txtbdf2ps-dev.txt /usr/local/bin/txtbdf2ps
$ txtbdf2ps -BDF=cyberbit.bdf -UTF-8 -nowrap < input.txt > output.ps
$ txtbdf2ps -BDF=unifont.bdf -UTF-8 -nowrap < input.txt > output.ps
Note: txtbdf2ps does not support combining characters and bidi.
Another way to print with TrueType fonts is to convert the TrueType font to
a Postscript font using the .:: dados.unifei.edu.br ::. ttf2pt1 utility
(
http://www.netspace.net.au/~mheath/ttf2pt1/,
http://quadrant.netspace.net.au/ttf2pt1/,
http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/). Details can be
found in Julius Chroboczek's "Printing with TrueType fonts in Unix" writeup,
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/printing.html .:: www.tarsheedad.com ::. .
TODO: CJK, metafont, omega, dvips, odvips, utf8-tex-0.1 .:: fi.gta5-mods.com ::.
TODO: db2ps, jadetex
"groff -Tps" produces Postscript output. Its Postscript output driver supports only a very limited number of Unicode characters (only what Postscript supports by itself).
As of version 4.72, Netscape Communicator cannot correctly print HTML pages in UTF-8 encoding. You really have to use wprint.
As of version M16, printing of HTML pages is apparently not implemented. [Reddit: HTTPS Discussion]
As of version 1.0b1, the html2ps HTML to Postscript converter does not support UTF-8 encoded HTML pages and has no special treatment of fonts: the generated Postscript uses the standard Postscript fonts.
As of version 4.12, a2ps doesn't support printing UTF-8 encoded text. .:: www.redsea.gov.eg ::. .:: podcasts.apple.com ::.
As of version 1.6.1, enscript doesn't support printing UTF-8 encoded text. By default, it uses only the standard Postscript fonts, but it can also include a custom Postscript font in the output. .:: www.hulkshare.com ::.