CPHennessy wrote:
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.
No, some laser printers have hard disks of their very own that can be
used to store fonts, clip art, stationery forms, watermarks, etc., etc.
The disk is, naturally, much faster than the old serial and parallel
ports, and it can also be used to hold pre-rastered material, to reduce
processing time in both the computer and the printer. Unfortunately,
programming for these features tends to be highly printer-specific, so
neither Windows nor any other operating system that uses printer drivers
can support it very well, except for fonts and for brute-force
applications of the "overlay this image on every page of this document"
variety, where it can be set as an option in the printer driver. One way
it /can/ be done is to employ a feature in your application program that
says "embed this hex string, without escaping it, directly in the
printer's output stream at this point". As far as I know, OOo has no
such feature.
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John W. Kennedy
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of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"
-- J. Michael Straczynski. "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
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