Re: [Groff] Driver for Panasonic KX-P1123

2009-06-30 Thread Efraim Yawitz
I would like to understand what is the advantage of a custom groff driver rather than using the ghostscript driver for that printer on PS output.

Re: [Groff] Driver for Panasonic KX-P1123

2009-06-30 Thread walter harms
KX-P1123 is a Matrixprinter. with ghostscript you can only use a "default" mode. Adding the correct sequences to groff will give the opportunity to have the right sequences in the output. re, wh Efraim Yawitz schrieb: > I would like to understand what is the advantage of a custom groff driver

Re: [Groff] Driver for Panasonic KX-P1123

2009-06-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I would like to understand what is the advantage of a custom groff > driver rather than using the ghostscript driver for that printer on > PS output. For example, you can't access the built-in fonts. Werner

Re: [Groff] Driver for Panasonic KX-P1123

2009-06-30 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:57:11AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > It has no native mode, so I'll write a driver for the LQ-850 mode > > (you could be much more generic, because Epson provides you > > documentation for all their printers). It would be nice if you could > > select the printer fr

Re: [Groff] Driver for Panasonic KX-P1123

2009-06-30 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Sorry for that, I'm too stupid to reply with mutt without cc'ing the list, but I'll hopefully learn from my mistakes. Regards, Matthias-Christian On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:13:29PM +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:57:11AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > > It