There are two that I am aware of, three if you include a program I wrote but never released:
1. Polytext, by Nick Ward. (multi column text with small graphics) 2. Text 'N' Graphix by Alan Bridewell (print pictures within Quill DOCs) 3. NLQL which I never finished. Pages made up of boxes, which could be text or graphics. It needed an editor to create text, the version I wrote could only import plain text already in correct line width. I lost patience with the program when I was having problems with some aspect of it and started to use Text 87/Line Design Publisher pack instead. Guess it's something I could think about resurrecting at some point! -- Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Mellor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:13:19 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.. > > 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) > > -- > Rich Mellor > RWAP Services > 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ > > http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
