Bob,
In Universe on Windows, there is no Universe spooler.
You print directly to a Windows printer.
If you want to pass PCL commands to that printer, you have to assign it the
Generic/Text 0nly driver from the Windows Generic mfg.
I guess I don't know what you mean by "spooler mode" and I've never heard of
Windows commands like "StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter" so I'm
not familiar with how they work.
Are they Windows commands?
Or, Universe commands?
Dave
Dave Taylor
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:01 PM
Subject: RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
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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