Hi Henrique, > I just read a PDF file "Epson ESC/P Reference Manual". It explains that > 24-pin printers can "receive" definitions on 241 characters into its RAM > but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only receive 6 characters
Well 241 is enough for normal purposes, control chars do not really need to have a shape which is visible on paper. But yes if you find a 9 pin printer in a museum, no font. > Perhaps the idea (which is what I did once with a 9-pin Epson LX-800 > that I had) is to manipulate the printer head directly. That is simply called "printing graphics" :-p > would force me to manually provide the data (through a TXT file) which > would be sent to a printer through some program which would pose as a > "printer driver". I would like to elaborate more on this but... No, you can just intercept the text and calculate the picture based on a font in RAM. You could just use the font of DISPLAY or the VGA card to save some RAM, but of course the necessary transformation of formats will make this somewhat CPU-heavy and slow. You can put the font pre-calculated in printer data style in RAM which saves CPU work but uses more RAM. Or you can do as you suggest - use some tool which would work similar to "font-prn fontfile.cpi 4242 sometext.txt" where 4242 would be the codepage number selected from the CPI... Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
