Msg: Re: vDosXy color modes

Carl,

I think I misunderstood -- I thought you were saying that somehow you had gotten a .tff screen font, in this case Courier New Bold, to print using LJ drivers and pcl6.exe. Which was puzzling.....

Am not sure of the font in your attachment, but I believe the default for the pcl6 method is HP's Dark Courier. Anyway, sorry for the confusion.

From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: vDosXy color modes

Reply to note from "John Paines" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx
(Redacted sender "vf200" for DMARC) Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:52:12 +0000
(UTC)

John,

> how did you get Courbd to work with xy3/4 PCL printer drivers --
> presumably via vDosxy?

I didn't do anything different from what I was doing before. I load my
ancient HP LaserJet II printer file from 20 years ago, HPLJ-2P.PRN. To
print a file, I do TYF filename,X:\XY4\FO.TMP, then launch
PCLPRINT.BAT, located in the directory with vDos.exe, consisting of the
following lines:

rem PCLPRINT.BAT
@echo off
cd /d %~dp0
if exist PCLPRINT.PDF del/q PCLPRINT.PDF
pcl6.exe -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=PCLPRINT.PDF
"%1"
start SumatraPDF.exe PCLPRINT.PDF
exit

It's all automated, and works like a charm.

Here's a screen shot -- from SumatraPDF, not XyWrite. WYSIWYG rules.

--
Carl Distefano
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx