On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:27, Rich Mellor wrote:

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>
> Best option is to throw some files at the filter once it is running on a
> wide number of setups.
> Everyone uses different translates where one character in Quill is
> translated to various printer control codes, eg. to use italics, get both
> the # and � symbol etc...
>
> May just need to build up the various character set tables in the filter
> program to support this...

No, definitely not.
If printing from (Xchange) Quill use the printer driver I supplied..

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> Yes I agree - but the filters are intended to be bolt on programs - they
> can give whatever feedback to the user they like.
>
> Where is this point heading??

:-)))

> Yes it is - scheme as it stands allows this to be developed for the future.
>
> If we are capturing standard ESC/P2 graphics data sent to the PFF device
> (by SDUMP for example), then a filter could spot the header for this and
> convert it to Proforma (or PIC file) as necessary.  The ESC/P2 raster
> graphics format is failry easy to decode :-)

No, the filter wouldn't need to spot that, you'd use another filter.

(...)
Wolfgang
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