No The actual image is on a hard disk in the printer. The image is a form overlay that fills the whole A4 page. By using PCL codes I can instruct the printer to retrieve the image and print the image at the same time as printing my document.
Under Wordperfect I do this by inserting the correct PCL codes as a printer command sting in the documents header. The command string is ESC x&q1ny Instead of this being printed as text it is sent raw for the printer to interpret. How can I achieve the same thing under OpenOffice. In word you can insert a field called print. Regards MARK -----Original Message----- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2005 23:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Printer commands On Thursday 21 July 2005 23:53, mark walker wrote: > I've been using WordPerfect for many years and i'm now moving to > OpenOffice. > > > One of the feature of WordPerfect is that within a document you can have > printer commands. This is a string of text that is sent directly to the > printer to control the printer. > > I use this facility to send a printer control code to retrieve graphics > images from the printers harddisk at document print time. > > I can't seem to find a comparable function in OpenOffice, can anyone help. > Hi Mark, Do you mean that you only want to link the image rather than really insert it ? Have a look at the OOo help system. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
