Re: PrintGF with Arachne

[Glenn McCorkle]

On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:15:57 +, Laurie L Proud wrote:

> Hello Everyone - Happy New Year !

> I have now installed PrintGF (for DOS) into c:\arachne\graphics
> where Glenn's example in MIME.CFG seems to point. I think I now have
> to copy the file >.BMP line refering to printGF into the working
> part of MIME.CFG.

> Apart from configuring PrintGF to use my HP Deskjet 500, is there
> anything else I need to change in Arachne ?

> Need a bit of hand holding here folk's - What's New :-)

It's rather simple to get working.

Once you've got PrintGF setup for your printer.
(and saved the configuration)

Place this line at the top of mime.cfg

file/printbmp.dgi |[100]g:\\graphics\\printgfd\\printgfd.exe _4prt.bmp /x
( ^^^^^^
Alter the directory structure to suit your location of printgfd.exe

(note the double '\\' needed in the path specification)
( ^^

Since you have it in c:\arachne\graphics 
Your line will be as follows.

file/printbmp.dgi |[100]c:\\arachne\\graphics\\printgfd.exe _4prt.bmp /x

Remember to remove '[100]' if you are using 4Dos.com instead of
command.com as your command interpreter.

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Re: PrintGF with Arachne

[Laurie L Proud]

On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:44:00 -0500, you wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:15:57 +, Laurie L Proud wrote:

>> Apart from configuring PrintGF to use my HP Deskjet 500, is there
>> anything else I need to change in Arachne ?

> Since you have it in c:\arachne\graphics 
> Your line will be as follows.

> file/printbmp.dgi |[100]c:\\arachne\\graphics\\printgfd.exe _4prt.bmp /x

Hi Glenn, I've cut & pasted the above line into MIME.CFG and we're in
business, the Deskjet 500 is printing from Arachne.

The difficult bit is setting the config for printGFD.  I've done my best
to fathom it, but need some help setting up the "paper/area" option.

It's talking about a rectangle for the print area on the paper.  I have
attemted to print a simple web page that should take a couple of sides
of 8"x11" paper that we call A4 over here, I've ended up with the whole
web page squashed into a rectangle 3"x 6" in area on the paper.

A good demonstration of the capabilities of the printer, but not as
expected.  Am I correct that printGFD will print complete web pages
saved as a (big) .BMP that will fill the width of paper, and use more
than 1 sheet if necessary.

While printing and still in Arachne printGFD shows the status of 
printing in the microscopic DOS text that shows through, what
is the command switch in MIME.CFG to pop into printGFD so we can
see the status text and then back into Arachne after print job done.

Thank-you Regards
Laurie


> Remember to remove '[100]' if you are using 4Dos.com instead of
> command.com as your command interpreter.

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