I've done some very simple things with just the HPGL commands. Line drawing and such are very easy with those. I've also used a soft font for things like logo's and signatures.
Don Kibbey Financial Systems Manager Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/04/05 10:58AM >>> Mark, There are software packages available to create overlays from documents. We've been doing this since the mid-90's (Steve Richmond and I did a presentation on this at the Universe Symposium in Denver in '94 or '95) with home-grown software originally. For the last five years or so, we've been using a product called Forms Electric (http://www.visual.co.uk/formselectric.asp). We copy the file this generates to our system, and cat the file to the printer. HTH Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ><quote who="Mark Johnson"> > > >>One of my clients would like to replace their pre-printed forms with those >>generated by the system. Basically the form has been re-created in MS >>Publisher and saved as a PRN file. >> >>I understand that there is some magic to send the form, keep the job open >>and >>then send the data for the form. This will most likely be HP PCL per my >>insistence but there maybe some Canon network printers brought into the >>mix. >> >> > >There are others on the list who will help with the overlaying of data on >a form, I hope... We use one Canon networked printer, the IR330, and it >supports PCL better than our HP Deskjet printers, so you shouldn't have >much trouble getting them to obey your PCL commands. > >Just a comment to make more noise on the list. > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drew Henderson 110 Ginger Hall Dir. for Computer Center Operations Morehead State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Morehead, kY 40351 (606) 783-2445 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
