| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 08:55:13 |
| Subject: | Re: Canon can't |
On 31-Jul-00, Paul Hill wrote:
> On 31-Jul-00 18:30:10, Eds Borthwick wrote:
>
>> So now if I want to print anything from Yam, Devpac, or anything
>> else that sends a text output I've got to save it to a file, load
>> it into a "convenient" word processor to convert it to a bitmap
>> before I get a result.
>
> Devpac? You're a programmer, so get writing :) Shouldn't be too hard.
> Just intercept the text printing stuff, render it to a rastport & dump
> it to the printer. Easy :-)
The point is that printing text as graphics is extremely slow. A printer
should have a plain text mode.
This problem is the same as the way PC users send emails in HTML -
trying to be fancy when plain text is all that is needed.
It's bloat.
Regards
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