Msg: Re: concept of a Xy PCL driver for producing standard Postscript

Kari,

There used to be a separate, distinct website devoted to all things Xy3 (I am *not* referring to Brian's Xywrite.Com site), but I have not seen any mention of it in a long time, so it may no longer be active ? In any case, from this and your follow-on posts, it sounds as though you may be in the process of working this Postscript driver thing out . . . ?

Jordan

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 11:56 PM
Subject: concept of a Xy PCL driver for producing standard Postscript

Jordan,

It does not matter what kind of printer you have. Basically, you need a
PCL driver with suitable font support for your needs. Incidentally, it
would be relatively easy to make a PCL driver with a set of discrete
font sizes (8, 10, 12, 14, 18, etc.) with the correct PS font character
width values and a set of PS-alike font names that could be interpreted
correctly by the GhostPCL engine to produce standard PostScript PDF
output. Note that this solution is limited to the point sizes introduced
in the Xy driver. From that point on, you will handle printing using
normal Windows procedures. Of course, if you just need printer output
(and not standard PostScript font support), any working Xy PCL driver
will do.

If we can get the existing PS drivers to work, this is, of course,
unnecessary.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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22.8.2016, 0:03, J R FOX wrote:
> Loading an HP-LJ driver is something I can do -- for any of these vDos
> packages -- as we have an ancient LJ-4P (if that's the correct number --
> it's their small form factor version of the 4) at the office, still in
> good working order. That one is wired, of course, and not available for
> wireless. But what happens from that point on remains unclear to me . .
> . .
>
>
> Jordan