Hi Jan,
Thanks for your reply :) :) I installed GhostPCL reconfigured my DOS
program and it is working wonderfully.
So here is what I did:
1) download and compile GhostPCL (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/)
2) Configure Dosemu with this to generate PS (faster then PDF) and
convert from stdin to stdout sending to printer:
$_printer_command = "pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite
-sOutputFile=- - | lpr -P EpsonC87"
I only tested with a simple DOS program, I will test with some CAD later.
As for Epson PS, maybe someday I will test it. I haven't tested it
because it is a very old source code which will probably take some work
to use with new compilers.
Alain
Jan Willem Stumpel escreveu:
I haven't, but this approach is sound in principle. I do a similar
thing with the HP (PCL) control language.
My Brother printer (with its drivers) only understands
Postscript and pdf. I made an input filter (for lprng) that
changes PCL to pdf, using pcl2pdf, which is part of GhostPCL
(http://www.artifex.com/downloads/). I tell my DOS programs that
they are talking to an HP Laserjet. Pure "raw text" is first
changed into PCL by prepending a PCL initialisation string. This
works. DOS programs can print both text and graphics.
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