This is a followup to an earlier online conversation. With some help from a local expert, I now have a Universe Personal Edition running on a Windows platform. I find that it DOES have the flexibility I needed.
If you do a SETPTR with an option GDI, it outputs using the Windows printer interface and the designated driver (so to speak), in the configured font and size. If you were to include PCL codes in this approach, they would not work, but would get drawn on the page. If you do a SETPTR with an option RAW, it outputs at what I call a spooler level, transparently to the printer (via the spooler). PCL codes are passed through, even if this is a non-Generic driver. Dave, have you tried RAW? On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Bob Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote: > > > > > 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? > > These are Windows commands. See, for instance > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535522(VS.85).aspx > > It would be a logical thing, I think, for Universe to use this approach to > writing to a printer, at least as an option. This would allow programmers > to work in Windows the same way they did on Unix. > > Is a Universe demo available from IBM? > > Regards, > ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. > > personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) > fax: (US) 503-624-0760 > web: http://www.anzio.com > street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. > 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 > Portland, OR 97223 USA > Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
