On Friday 22 July 2005 00:54, John W. Kennedy wrote: [snip] > 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.
this sounds quite interesting. Obviously not many people know about such a feature (or many printers do not support it). Anyway your best bet is to ask this feature to be added. Can you please report this in issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when you receive a confirmation email, "Login" and "File an issue" ) In this way the relevant developers will see your suggestion and you will also see the progress of this feature if it is accepted. -- 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]
