Msg: Re: more re printing with vDos

O.K., thanks. But I'm still not sure I'm following you re all the steps in getting from here to there. We have 4 or 5 HP LJ drivers for Xy-3 to choose from. (These have been used when we've had an older computer directly connected to a HP 4L printer over a parallel connection, if you recall those compact workhorse printers. At this point it's become rather difficult to find toner cartridges for them.) What happens after the legal document is ready ? Make sure it has the correct FD, then generate an FO.Tmp, with all the raw PCL code ? And then . . . ?

What Paul wrote re the DosBox scenario prompts me to note that when trying to take the Xy-3 setup full-screen under vDosXy, the result seems to be an exceeds-the-screen mess that's hard to control and can't readily be reverted to the partial screen. How to tailor this, if possible ?

[Please excuse anything elementary that has been forgotten: I've gotten pretty rusty with Xy-3, but still occasionally have to support it for the office.]

Jordan

From: John Paines
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxx"
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: more re printing with vDos

Using an HP LJ driver, a PC5 code and an appropriate FD value, both inside the a xy3 document proper, appear to generate correctly paginated legal-size pages.

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: more re printing with vDos

Hello Jordan,

At present, legal paper is not supported. I think the GhostPCL solution
would be the optimal solution for this need, too. I am investigating
this. I will let you know when I have a solution.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html
Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/

J R FOX kirjoitti 29.1.2018 klo 4:41:
> Hi Kari,
>
> To elaborate on my email of 1/26:
>
> I printed out the Printing doc from vDosXy 500 for reference, but it
> remain confusing to me. Our office has Xy-3, has an HP-1006 laser and a
> recent model wireless HP inkjet, plus one other printer, and makes
> frequent use of legal-size paper -- which is not addressed at all in the
> printing doc. Accurate formatting for legal documents would need to be
> observed.
>
> What is the status of the earlier 'Winprinter' utility, which may have
> been suggested circa the earlier vDOS-LFN ?
>
>
>
> Jordan