Now it's working. Strange. I think this has something to do with running XP in a virtual machine on the Mac.
On Dec 9, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote: > Okay, here's more. Extensive testing at home shows that I cannot effectively > use BoldOn and BoldOff codes where I'm also inserting DPSpool font codes. In > such cases, the bolding is ignored. For instance, if I insert > > <244>FNew Times Roman<244><244>P13<244> > > as a Printer Code at the start of a character string, and > > <244>FCourier New<244><244>P12<244> > > at the end of that character string, those codes work fine. However, it I > surround all that with BoldOn and a BoldOff codes (whether inserted as <157> > and <156>, or inserted by DP itself, the bolding is ignored. > > If I remove the DPSpool codes you see above, and just insert DP BoldOn and > BoldOff codes, it works fine. > > On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote: > >> Maybe it was DOS text. I'll check that out. But I doubt it, since some of >> the bolding was correct, some not. I imagine none of the DP inserted bolding >> would have worked if it was DOS text, but some did. The driver at home is an >> HP universal PCL6 driver and the one in the office was an HP universal PCL5 >> driver. The former worked. The latter didn't. At least, if it was a driver >> problem. >> >> On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Tim Rude wrote: >> >>> Ralph, >>> >>> Did you make sure that your report output format was WP and not DOS >>> Text? >>> >>> Tim Rude >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ralph Alvy" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:35 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DPSpool and Bold On and Off >>> >>> >>>> I wonder if this a printer driver problem, as it works fine at home on >>> my XP virtual window under Parallels on my new Mac. >>>> >>>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote: >>>> >>>>> Been trying out DPSpool lately, and notice that using Bold On and >>> Off >>>>> codes (inserted by DP or manually inserted as <157> and <156> >>> sometimes >>>>> print out as something like this: >>>>> >>>>> !!"# >>>>> >>>>> followed by other jibberish like the above. What is common is that >>> every >>>>> line where there's jibberish, it starts with the above four >>> characters. >>>>> >>>>> Using an HP Laserjet 1320 via the HP universal print driver. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Dataperf mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Dataperf mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dataperf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
