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From: Jim Madsen on 25 May 2010 21:21 When sending a print job to a printer, how does one send an "escape sequence", to access the fonts installed on the printer itself?
From: dpb on 25 May 2010 22:28 Jim Madsen wrote: > When sending a print job to a printer, how does one send an "escape > sequence", to access the fonts installed on the printer itself? Embed the proper escape sequence characters in a string and PRINT should do it... --
From: dpb on 26 May 2010 08:25 dpb wrote: > Jim Madsen wrote: >> When sending a print job to a printer, how does one send an "escape >> sequence", to access the fonts installed on the printer itself? > > Embed the proper escape sequence characters in a string and PRINT should > do it... OBTW, altho I've not had need for ages, years ago when was basically the only control mechanism I built a set of name parameter string constants that matched the typical functionality available of common printers. Then simply updating a data file that set the proper sequence was all that was needed to switch. HP PCL and various other vendor sequences were fixed for same function across printers that used the particular control sequence. --
From: Helmut Meukel on 26 May 2010 10:30 "Jim Madsen" <justme(a)nobody.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23u6O6GH$KHA.5560(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > When sending a print job to a printer, how does one send an "escape sequence", > to access the fonts installed on the printer itself? Jim, Why use escape sequences at all? How about setting the Printer.Font.Name directly in your code? If you don't know the names of the built-in printer fonts, the printer driver does. Iterate the fonts collection of the Printer object to get the names. Fonts which aren't members of the Screen.Fonts collection would be built-in fonts of the Printer. BTW, I faintly remember a KB article about bypassing the Printer object to send Escape Sequences to the printer. Helmut.
From: Phil Hunt on 26 May 2010 12:45
like Open Printer.Port For Output Access Write As 1 Print #1, ESCString "Helmut Meukel" <Helmut_Meukel(a)NoProvider.de> wrote in message news:htjc39$6ml$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "Jim Madsen" <justme(a)nobody.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:%23u6O6GH$KHA.5560(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> When sending a print job to a printer, how does one send an "escape >> sequence", to access the fonts installed on the printer itself? > > > Jim, > > Why use escape sequences at all? > How about setting the Printer.Font.Name directly in your code? > If you don't know the names of the built-in printer fonts, the > printer driver does. Iterate the fonts collection of the Printer > object to get the names. Fonts which aren't members of the > Screen.Fonts collection would be built-in fonts of the Printer. > > BTW, I faintly remember a KB article about bypassing the > Printer object to send Escape Sequences to the printer. > > Helmut. > |