Hi,
I have some sources for graphical printing onto Epson FX-80 compatible
printers and and for converting fonts to/from binary representation for
this program. While there is no distinctive license present, it seems
like phrase these sources can be freely used and modified puts it into
public
Yes Eric,
now that you mentioned that, it was what I did with that Epson LX-800
printer that I had - but, as I had said, I used MS-DOS 6.0 and QBASIC
for that. Developing a wholly independent program for that is something
else - which I don't know how.
My question is still up, Eric: Would you
Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS?
On this old talk recommend msword for DOS (free as free beer)
http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/free-word-processor/16280.html
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On 05/06/2011 06:43 AM, Marco Achury wrote:
Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS?
On this old talk recommend msword for DOS (free as free beer)
http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/free-word-processor/16280.html
Hi Marco,
There are several sites for downloading WordPerfect 4.2, the
WordPerfect 5.1 was even better, but took a lot more computer power.
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From: Jim Lemon [mailto:j...@bitwrit.com.au]
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:06 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Word processing
On 05/06/2011 06:43 AM,
Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote in
news:4dc2ebc0.30...@terra.com.br:
I just read a PDF file Epson ESC/P Reference Manual. It explains
that 24-pin printers can receive definitions on 241 characters
into its RAM but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only
receive 6 characters.
Hi Mark,
it's not about willing to accept. Unfortunately, printing on graphics
mode seems to be the only common denominator among all brands and models
of printers.
Naturally, if someone needs a character table which is already hardcoded
to his/her printer, all (s)he will have to do is to
On 24 pin Epson printers, you can print graphics as fast as printing
text. there is a special mode where consecutive high definition dots
cannot be on, which is the text mode printing trick...
But I believe that even if you use the more universal mode, it will be
fast enough, specially if
Sounds very interesting.
Look around for the TT font named GNU Unifont, contains a very big
subset of unicode
and is not vectorial, is based on bitmaps, looks ready for dot matrix
printing.
Your gliph file is freely available?
Best regards
Marco Achury
El 06/05/2011 03:30 a.m., Henrique
Freely available, Marco. I just didn't upload it into the FreeDOS
database because it was meant for (my) internal work only. I sent a copy
of that huge file to Viste for him to include it as an internal database
for his Foxtype Unicode text file viewer.
However, should any software developer
Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote in
news:4dc42724.7020...@terra.com.br:
Hi Mark,
it's not about willing to accept. Unfortunately, printing on
graphics mode seems to be the only common denominator among all
brands and models of printers.
Naturally, if someone needs a character
Hi Mark, Henrique,
ghostscript in general is a nice tool and there are ports for
DOS which work in FreeDOS or are even made for FreeDOS, I think
that for example Blair made one such port. Using 32 bit DOS C
compilers is no big problem, things still run on 16 bit DOS but
you will need a 386 or
Hi,
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS?
Have you tried VDE? EdiTury? GNU Emacs 23.3? I know they aren't
perfect, or maybe even slightly suitable, but they have some weird
non-ASCII features, so Oh, and Mined
WP5.1 was my first word processor, it came with my first PC. Blank
color for bold letters and highlighted text for underlining it was
enough for my bw printer!!!
WP6.1 for DOS was also my first experience with WYSWYG software but
way too powerful for my then-486. So I stayed with WP5.1 until Word
Hi Eric, Mark,
Ok - I have a glyph database of 8x16 chars in a single text file.
Would that do for a start? Or the idea is to wait for someone volunteer
on developing software to automatically convert screen fonts to the printer?
Henrique
Em 6/5/2011 17:09, Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi Mark,
Henrique:
Read this: http://czyborra.com/unifont/
Unifont uses 8x16 matrix for latin characters and many others with low
complexity. For chinese and
other complex characters use 16x16, so complex chartacters will take 2
text positions on the
printed output.
The hex unifont is at:
In the printes, fonts should have
Low Res 9 pin: 72/6 = 12 pixels
Low Res 24 pin: 180/6= 30 pixels
Hi Res 9 pin: 144/6= 24 pixels
Hi Res 24 pin: 360/6= 60 pixels
This for the whole line (glyph + spacing). Can tou imagine how to
convert your database to work with these resolutions?
Alain
Alain, the answer is to interpolate the glyphs but I don't know how to
do it - by the way, at least on what concerns Epson printers, I think
that there's a native way to interpolate low-resolution glyphs. Anyone
wishing to develop the printer driver would also have to check Panasonic
I found very interesting that all the required sizes are multiple of six,
so is wise that glyph designer to use a matrix with 6 pixels...
Only 9 pins high-res is exact multiple of eigth
A simple way is to reduce the character with is to look for 2 consecutive
columns with the same bits, and
Very nice site, Marco - I'll contact Czyborra.
Thank you,
Henrique
Em 6/5/2011 21:00, Marco Achury escreveu:
Henrique:
Read this: http://czyborra.com/unifont/
Unifont uses 8x16 matrix for latin characters and many others with low
complexity. For chinese and
other complex characters use
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