| From: | Eds Borthwick |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 13:28:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Canon can't |
Hello Don
On 01-Aug-00, you 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 :-)
Firstly, the program to do the job exists in Turboprint.
Secondly, Why the hell should we have to emulate a basic printer function?
> The point is that printing text as graphics is extremely slow. A printer
> should have a plain text mode.
Exactly
> 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.
Dead right.
I sent Canon a snotty "why are you pandering to great God Microsoft" type
mail btw, be interesting to see if they reply. ;)
l8r
Eds
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