> > > On Jul 1, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Different printer story this time... This is for work. > > > > We, CSS Health Technologies, do hospital software: financials, EMR, Lab. > We recently set up to print a form in Spanish and the form has all of the > extra characters loaded into it. We can see that these characters are > there. But they don't print. Now, we do all manner of gymnastics, > involving PDF, in order to deliver these forms to the printer. > > > > The question came to me in the form of "do you know anything about PCL?" > No, I have never had a burning reason to hex-dump that which is sent to > the printer nor do I know how to intercept what the printer processor is > doing. > > > > I tried to point out to my inquirer that there are inherent conflicts > between PCL and PS and PDF, though I'd be hard pressed to prove it. > > > > Also, this winter I took a French class. The teacher could not generate > handouts with all the accents and punctuation because he was using a word > processor set to English. For sport, I bought a Canadian multilingual > keyboard ($20 plus shipping) and installed Ubuntu 10.04 selecting French as > the language. My OpenOffice and printer generate[ s | d] all the accents > just fine. > > > > So, gentle readers, I poll your thoughts on where we should start > looking for where the accents and punctuation get stripped out of our print > job. Anybody have similar experiences? > > > > This sounds like ASCII vs utf-8 > > Howard > > >
What kind of printer are we talking about? a dot matrix, a inkjet? Also, did you imply that you could print this to pdf? if you can print it to a file first, just to make sure you aren't loosing it in translation. The printer probably is not the real problem. Andrew > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
