Tim Chase wrote:
W. eWatson wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-01-15, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote:
I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt
file I wrote to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work.
Comments?
Yes, it does work.
Apparently not with with my Brother 1440 laser printer. The character
in NotePad.txt looks like a small rectangle, and on the printed page.
Same result HP C6180 Photosmart.
But are you sending the raw control codes to the printer, or are you
sending the image-of-my-text-document to a printer-GDI which then
renders the as-you-see-it out of the printer?
The pseudo-pipeline comparison would be
type file.txt > lpt1:
which would send the raw text file to the printer (assuming it's set up
on LPT1, otherwise, use whatever port it's attached to in your printer
control panel); or are you using something like
notepad file.txt
File -> Print
which renders to an internal image representation and then sends that
image out to the printer. If it were a dot-matrix printer, you'd
here/see the difference in a jiffy -- the raw dump is fast and uses the
printer's built-in fonts while the render-as-image is slow and NOISY.
One alternative is possibly to set up the "Generic Text" printer as a
device type and attach it to the same port; I've had fair fortune with
this letting me control the printer more directly if I want fast dumps
(particularly on dot-matrix printers) rather than pretty dumps.
-tkc
I should mention I'm using Windows. I just put chr(12) right in the txt.
It's the first character in the next line of the txt file where I want
to page forward. Not acquainted with GDI. Maybe I need some sequence of
such characters?
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