Re: preventing lines from printing with substitution tables

["John Paines" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "vf200" for DMARC)]

Carl,


Thanks for that suggestion.  It introduces some unexpected block shading, but it works.  Since I place comments only on blank lines within the existing document format, white space is no matter.


Not to sound thankless, but I wonder if the same could be achieved in a generic/Epson type driver? 


 
 
 
  
 From: Carl Distefano 
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Reply to note from "John Paines" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx
(Redacted sender "vf200" for DMARC) Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:09:27 +0000
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John:

> So we got half-way there, but its a way-station I can't
> unfortunately use.

You can get a *bit* closer. In a PCL-based printer file, define an
attribute -- let's call it HIDDEN -- as follows (for "{ESC}",
substitute the actual Ascii-27 escape character):

AT:HIDDEN
AT<{ESC}*v1o1T
AT>{ESC}*v0o0T
ET

Then, in the PT table(s), assign the HIDDEN attribute to a mode, for
example, MD FL:

PT=1
MD NM+12courier
...
MD FL+12courier+HIDDEN

In printing, text wrapped in ... should be hidden. But not
invisible, alas. Your document will have white space where the text
would otherwise have been.


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Carl Distefano
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