From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Willem Stumpel Subject: Re: Epson Printing Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:03:08 +0100 Message-ID: <45518F3C.8060700@my.home> References: <455125B2.9070009@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <455125B2.9070009@pobox.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Alain M." Cc: dosEmu-list Alain M. schreef: > Has anyone pested the program "epsonps" with dosemu? "tested" it you mean? Have you tested it yourself yet? > It is suposed to convert Epson the printer output with control > codes and generate a Postscript file. This would be great for > compatibility, specily now that even Epson printers don't > accept control chars anymore. 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. Maybe doing it with epsonps would be simpler. Regards, Jan