On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> You stated below that "In this approach (spooler mode), it generally doesn't
> matter WHAT kind of printer driver is used. What's important is that the
> printer understand what you're sending it."
>
> Actually, it *does* matter what kind of printer driver you use because if you
> use the printer mfg's driver it will *not* pass the PCL commands thru to the
> printer.
>
> In Windows, you must use the Generic Text/Only driver from the Generic printer
> mfg if you want the PCL commands passed thru to the printer. Plus you must
> choose the WinPrint Print Processor and the Raw Data Type.
The key difference between your set of conditions and mine is this: I am
referring to printing in "spooler mode". At the Windows API level, this
means StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter. (High level printing
in Windows involves doing TextOut or similar commands.)
I don't know what level Universe and/or Unidata uses for its printing; it
would be helpful to know. One way to test would be to use a non-Generic
driver, and set it to "print to file", then send me the file.
>
> In Linux, you must also use the Text-Only driver and you must reconvert each
> LF to a CR/LF because Linux strips off the CR from each CR/LF.
I'm not addressing Linux at all.
Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
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