On 28-Apr-00, David Gerber wrote:
>
> Try to turn off automatic form feed in Turboprint and report if it
> works better. V calculates how many sheets are needed and sends out
> form feeds automatically. Well, we might make that settable one day if
> it causes problems.
I think the problem being complained of is that the page breaks cut
through lines of text. You get the top half of the letters on one page
and the rest on the next.
>
> Huh... no. Actually it could do better by printing at the printer's
> resolution. So if you printer can do a page of 3000 points
> horizontally it could render a temporary bitmap of that size and send
> it to the printer. That feature is on my todo list.
Hooray!
> [...]
>
>> Another solution might be, to convert
>> the HTML source into another format.
>
> Yep, Postscript output or so :)
Even more hooray.
I have somewhere an ARexx script for converting ASCII to PostScript
(with line breaks etc). You can have a copy of that if it would be
useful.
The Postscript for a web page, assuming the HTML is parsed and the
layout is known, is relatively simple because there are only type, and
bitmap images, and simple rectangular paths. No structured drawings or
gradients etc.
You would have to send Type1 versions of the TrueType fonts, however. I
can convert the standard ones for you with TypeSmith when necessary.
It's best to keep them stored as Type 1 fonts, it takes much too long to
convert on the fly. Times, Helvetica, Symbol, Courier, Zapf Dingbats
are already in all PS printers.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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