I'm already using PDFs to print, but some dot-matrix printers are too slow to print graphics.
the question about chars, it is because I need print in condensed mode CHR(18) and 8 lines per inch CHR(27)+CHR(0) the question about new Renderer it is because we can make a standard for print in ESC/P using FO also. Would be interresting implement this? Or Extend TXTRenderer to make this? Clóvis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 21/03/02, 16:08:40, Art Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding RE: How format to dot-matrix printers (ESC/P): > My first suggestion would be to use Acrobat or something to print the PDFs. > Second (or maybe it should be first) would be to use the AWT based print > renderer to print to the printer. I have not used this, but shouldn't AWT be > able to print to any printer for which it has a suitable driver. Maybe this > works better under M$ Windows. Most of my work these days is with Unix and > until recently on our systems AWT did not work well and when it did I think > that it would only print PostScript. YMMV. > Next if the formatting is not very fancy then I would suggest generating the > text/ESCP using just XSLT (with an extension function for the special > characters). > The TXTRenderer assumes that the font for output does not change. Last time > I checked ESC/P printers should accept plain ASCII text without the need for > additional control codes (other than CR,LF). This is what the TXTRenderer > produces. The problem is that with the exception of some special cases, the > output produced by the TXTRenderer is UGLY. > As to CHR(18) and CHR(27), I guess that may depend on how the XML parser > interprets "legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646" (from the XML W3C > Rec). Being below CHR(32) I suspect that they will probably be rejected as > not a valid XML character. > If you want pretty output and can not post process one of the current output > formats then you are probably looking at a new renderer. > Art > -----Original Message----- > From: Clóvis Wichoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How format to dot-matrix printers (ESC/P) > Hi FOP team, > I'm using FOP for generating PDF's, but now I need use FOP to generate > text files (txt) for dot-matrix printers using Epson ESC/P, and I have > following questions: > 1) I need create my own Renderer? > if yes, what I need to share this with FOP-DEV > 2) Can I do this with TXTRenderer? > if yes, How put chars like CHR(27) CHR(18) in txt? > Best regards > Clóvis Wichoski > Supridatta > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
