> > 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) > > Surely it would make more sense to send everything as graphics, then? > > Wolfgang The way my NLQL program was going to work from what I remember all those years ago was that it would output a line of text, CR back to the start of the line, calculate how much graphics would fit in that line and print those over the line of text, in other words mixed text and graphics.
In other words, rather than rasterise the text, text was output as text and graphics superimposed. It meant I had a very long winded print process to say the least. The one hiccup was 9-pin dot matrix printers which printed NLQ by 2 slightly vertically offset passes to reduce their dottiness so the 9-pin printer driving was difficult to say the least. Looking back, it seems so complex I'm amazed I took it as far as I did before I stopped writing it! -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
