From: Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: printing to cups cups-pdf
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:56:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dm0srg$gf1$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dm0144$r06$1@sea.gmane.org>
Randall Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm ultimately trying to have jobs printed from foxpro under dosemu to
> print to a file. A postscript file would do, but I've been trying to
> generate a pdf file.
>
> I'm using cups and I've tried setting the printer command to "lp -l" in
> the config and I specified the printer. When I print from foxpro, a pdf
> is generated, but it is blank. Just issuing
>
> echo 'hello' | lpr -P printername
>
> works.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get file output from print jobs?
>
> Randall
>
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It seems that it may be a character set issue. I got FoxPro to print to
a file and here is a line from it.
^[Eworkorder:^[F 010201-004
I think I need some type of character set conversion, but I don't know
what it should be yet. Need help.
Randall
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