Hi Mark, it's not about "willing to accept". Unfortunately, printing on graphics mode seems to be the only common denominator among all brands and models of printers.
Naturally, if someone needs a character table which is already hardcoded to his/her printer, all (s)he will have to do is to setup his/her printer accordingly and print on text mode. However, many printers have a very reduced set of character tables; furthermore, there are a lot of codepages which I created for FreeDOS which naturally aren't hardcoded anywhere. Last but not least - the DOS drivers you pointed us to refer to 32-bit DOS. Henrique Em 6/5/2011 11:20, Mark Blain escreveu: > Henrique Peron<hpe...@terra.com.br> wrote in > news:4dc2ebc0.30...@terra.com.br: > >> I just read a PDF file "Epson ESC/P Reference Manual". It explains >> that 24-pin printers can "receive" definitions on 241 characters >> into its RAM but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only >> receive 6 characters. It seems that uploading a codepage into a >> printer's RAM is out of the question. :-( >> >> Perhaps the idea (which is what I did once with a 9-pin Epson >> LX-800 that I had) is to manipulate the printer head directly. >> That would leave CPI files and hardcoded printer codepages out of >> the equation. That would force me to manually provide the data >> (through a TXT file) which would be sent to a printer through some >> program which would pose as a "printer driver". I would like to >> elaborate more on this but it seems this is the wrong freedos-list >> to do that. I have some ideas and perhaps we could work together >> on a "printer driver" for FreeDOS. > If you're willing to accept the very slow printing speed of your > printer's graphics mode then you may want to investigate GhostScript, > which already provides a wide variety of fonts, sizes and printer > drivers. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get510.htm > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
