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..
Trouble is we need to foresee that not everyone will think to swap the printer driver over.
If we can support it - why not.... I am happy to assist with writing the programs, I don't expect it to all lie on your shoulders Wolfgang.
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.
Depends - someone might at some stage develop a program which can output both text and graphics.. I think there was an old utility which already could do this from a Quill DOC file - am thinking back to CGH Services days (late 80s)
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