In terms of the solution for streaming to an LPT port or network printer, is
there a way to catch an error if this fails? Lets say I have a network
printer and it is offline, how can I know if it worked or not? It's a blind
process.
Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: Hitesh Bagchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 3:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help in XML Rendering to PostScript
also if I use
driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_TXT);
and send the output to the printer straight away the printer is able to
understand
the output and is able to print the text output. But the quality of the
output
falls far short of what a pdf output can provide.
Thanks,
Hitesh
Hitesh Bagchi wrote:
> I used the following piece of code to send the pcl output to the
printer(HP
> Laser Jet 6P/6MP network printer):
>
> FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("\\\\Melstar\\Melprn");
> Driver driver = new Driver();
> driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PCL);
> driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.fo.StandardElementMapping");
> driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.svg.SVGElementMapping");
> driver.addPropertyList("org.apache.fop.fo.StandardPropertyListMapping");
> driver.addPropertyList("org.apache.fop.svg.SVGPropertyListMapping");
> driver.setOutputStream(fos);
> driver.buildFOTree(parser, new InputSource(args[0]));
> driver.format();
> driver.render();
>
> And everything went smoothly.
> Only the printer printed a lot of junk characters like you would get if
you
> write the pcl output to a file and send the file to a printer as a text
file.
> Does it mean my printer do not understand pcl output.
>
> Thanks,
> Hitesh
>
> Art Welch wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if I have the syntax exactly correct (and I do not have
FOP
> > installed on my Windows 2000 or NT workstations at the moment), but in
the
> > past I have successfully printed directly to a network printer, just by
> > opening a file stream to it. For example in your example only the first
line
> > would need to change something like:
> >
> > FileOutputStream fos = new
> > FileOutputStream("\\\\hostname\\printername");
> >
> > For a local printer you should be able to do something like:
> >
> > FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("lpt1");
> >
> > HTH,
> > Art
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hitesh Bagchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:35 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Help in XML Rendering to PostScript
> >
> > I am using windows NT and I am trying to print the PCL output directly
to
> > the
> > printer which is a
> > HP Laser Jet 6P/6MP network printer from my application. Here is my
piece of
> > code :
> >
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -----------------------
> >
> > FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("../temp/tTest.pcl");
> > Driver driver = new Driver();
> > driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PCL);
> >
driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.fo.StandardElementMapping");
> > driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.svg.SVGElementMapping");
> >
driver.addPropertyList("org.apache.fop.fo.StandardPropertyListMapping");
> > driver.addPropertyList("org.apache.fop.svg.SVGPropertyListMapping");
> > driver.setOutputStream(fos);
> > driver.buildFOTree(parser, new InputSource(args[0]));
> > driver.format();
> > driver.render();
> >
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -----------------------<<
> >
> > Now instead of printing to the Test.pcl file I want to send the output
> > directly
> > to the HP Laser Jet 6P/6MP
> > printer on the network.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hitesh
> >
> > Art Welch wrote:
> >
> > > I thought that I had answered a question about direct printing PCL
> > recently.
> > > If you will tell me what platform you are using (Windows/Unix) and how
you
> > > are invoking FOP (application or command line). I will try to answer
this.
> > >
> > > Art
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hitesh Bagchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:50 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Help in XML Rendering to PostScript
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > Can somebody tell me how to stream PCL output to a network printer
without
> > > writing to a file.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hitesh
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am fairly new to FOP and to Java as well. I am wondering if
anyone
> > has
> > > > written a rendering to convert an XML stream to Postscript with FOP
> > > (similar
> > > > to the PCL or PDF renderer) - I am in desperate need of a mechanism
to
> > do
> > > > this. We have a current Java app that converts an XML stream into
PDF,
> > > but
> > > > printing through Adobe Acrobat is too resource intensive on the
lower
> > end
> > > > machines. I have tried converting to PCL and then streaming to a
port,
> > > > which works pretty well, but is not a 100% compatibile (PCL beng
only
> > HP)
> > > >
> > > > If anyone knows of a way to convert an XML to PS format using a
custom
> > FOP
> > > > piece they've written, or knows of a better mechanism, I'd be
forever
> > > > grateful!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks very much,
> > > >
> > > > Tony
> > > >
> > > >
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