On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:27, Rich Mellor wrote: (...)
> > 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.. (...) > 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 ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
