On 3 Dec 2004 at 21:58, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
the GUI - I find that it does not list all printer drivers
correctly -
loses first the one so passes the driver ID one position out of
step to the filter. I only have 6 installed only the Epson stylus
ones.
Ooops, yes, done.
Also the
No. Both remain selected so its
difficult to know what is selected.
Duncan Neithercut
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Hi all,
work
On 3 Dec 2004 at 21:58, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
Hi,
the GUI - I find that it does not list all printer drivers
correctly -
loses first the one so passes the driver ID one position out of
step to the filter. I only have 6 installed only the Epson stylus
ones.
Also the radio button Yes
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:58:46 -, Duncan Neithercut
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Hi,
the GUI - I find that it does not list all printer drivers
correctly -
loses first the one so passes the driver ID one position out of
step to the filter. I only have 6 installed only the Epson stylus
ones.
Also
Is there an easy way of finding out what characters a font supports??
You could try 'ProWesS Fonts Utilities'.
Or for those using only Proforma, not ProWesS, the older SHOWPFF or whatever
the font viewing utility was called (supplied with pre-ProWesS Line Designs)
Dilwyn Jones
Hi all,
work on the Proforma printing suite continues.
There is a new version on my website. This now contains the PFF device
which, hopefully, is close to completion, pending bug fixes of the bugs you
will find...
Anyway, it will now call up a (configurable) file or (configurable)
Hmm - just thought - if you allow for C strings, you need to ensure that
the character BEFORE the SER or PAR is not another letter, eg we could
replace a prompt: Print to (SER), but not You are a loser (both would
end with byte 0.
And yes, Joachim is correct - you do also need to be
Do all programs have a word length counter before the device name or
do some have a byte length one? And any programs known to use a device
name delimited by LF or whatever rather than the internal format with
length word/byte?
Good question - normally a word length. What about
Depends - someone might at some stage develop a program which can
output
both text and graphics.. I think there was an old utility which
already
could do this from a Quill DOC file - am thinking back to CGH
Services
days (late 80s)
Surely it would make more sense to send everything as
, November 27, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
cut
Depends - someone might at some stage develop a program which can
output
both text and graphics.. I think there was an old utility which
already
could do this from a Quill DOC file - am thinking back to CGH
Services
On 27 Nov 2004 at 16:02, Rich Mellor wrote:
Trouble is we need to foresee that not everyone will think to swap the
printer driver over.
No. If they don't swap - too bad for them.
If we can support it - why not I am happy to assist with writing the
programs, I don't expect it to all
Remember, each different GDI printer needs its own driver...
I have mentioned this so many times. ProForma as it stands will only
print to printers for which it has drivers and there are no ESC/P raster
drivers. The cheap printers have no emulations. Even the expensive
printers often have
I have no idea how easy it is to pass a PIC file to Proforma - Joachim??
Great to know that PROforma has existsed for (I think) close to ten
years now, and still hardly anybody knows anything about it :-(
The term is more like knew rather than knows. I probably have forgotten
more about it
Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone without permission if it is for a commercial
product
1) Have a look at Jochen's THING articles
On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily available
at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL can
already output PCL 3 (just not the later versions).
Well all I (innocently) did to get this started
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:54:49 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
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On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily
available
at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL
can
already output PCL 3
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From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an
application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further
use.
Glad to hear
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:27, Rich Mellor wrote:
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Best option is to throw some files at the filter once it is running on a
wide number of setups.
Everyone uses different translates where one character in Quill is
translated to various printer control codes, eg. to use italics, get both
the
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately? I had
an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak his own mind. He is always willing to
talk by email. I got off to a very
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:40:57 -0600 (CST), Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately?
I had
an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak
in market research? :- ))
Duncan Neithercut
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From: Rich Mellor
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] Proforma Filter
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From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an
application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further
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From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Fair enough, but all I want is for him to post a message to the mailing
list or even one of the magazines, letting us know what developments are
happening every now
Yes, even Quill should be able to write to PFF as long as you enter it as
'_PFF' in the printing dialogue if it won't accept just PFF. Quill can even
accommodate unusual names like _n1_PAR for printing IIRC.
Shouldn't be too difficult to write a program which looks for and automatically
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Yes, even Quill should be able to write to PFF as long as you enter it
as '_PFF' in the printing dialogue if it won't accept just PFF. Quill
can even accommodate unusual names like _n1_PAR for printing IIRC.
Shouldn't be too difficult
I am glad to see that this has at least inspired some interest and
hopefully we will see the beginnings of some work towards an actual
product - although we still have no confirmation that Proforms can output
to a Windows only printer - if not, we may be in trouble. Surely someone
has access
Like SPLF tk2 ?
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Joachim then identified a third problem if we are to use a PFF device
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Finally, the other problem to be addressed is how the QL will communicate
with the printer. Admittedly more and more printers have USB only
connection which means that they currently cannot be connected to a native
QL or the Qx0. However,
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:48:32 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
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On 25 Nov 2004 at 15:52, Rich Mellor wrote:
I am glad to see that this has at least inspired some interest and
hopefully we will see the beginnings of some work towards an actual
product - although we still have no
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Finally, the other problem to be addressed is how the QL will
communicate
with the printer. Admittedly more and more printers have USB only
connection which means that they
On 25 Nov 2004 at 18:46, Rich Mellor wrote:
If Proforma cannot output to these printers - is there much point in
persuing this further as people will still be struggling to find printers
which are compatible with the QL...
I disagree (again...).
I'd never buy a GDI printer, and there are
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:43:29 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
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On 25 Nov 2004 at 18:46, Rich Mellor wrote:
If Proforma cannot output to these printers - is there much point in
persuing this further as people will still be struggling to find
printers
which are compatible with the
Well , if one told me what these were, I'd probably have done it
already...
Have a look at the standard Quill output for starters - Dilwyn will
have a
copy of the complete Epson ESC/P programming manual somewhere for
download, but it is large. Text87 output is a lot more troublesome
as it
3. The program Wolfgang provided. This will then regularly check the
accounting thing to know if something needs to be printed. If there is,
then it goes ahead and prints stuff. If a new print job arrives for a
printer which is already being printed on, the job is delayed (this
would
On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Assuming it's a filter program which for example copies the file printed to
ram1_ to a chosen printer...
1. Reserved filename, say ram1_prtfile_dat or similar.
(Would allow printer drivers to be configured to this filename if this is
the
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