Msg: Re: New U2 frame DDIR

Jordan,

Fonts and formatting are embedded in the pdf which this process creates, so you don't need an HP or HP-emulating printer to use this method. Any Windows printer, HP or otherwise, will work, since Windows, not vdos or xywrite, is handling printer control. The HP LJ driver is used for pdf creation. After that, Windows handles it.

You can, additionally, bypass the screen pdf created by this method and send documents directly to the Windows default printer with the usual xywrite print commands, using a method Edward Mendelsohn detailed on the vdos site some time back.

From: J R FOX
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxx"
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: New U2 frame DDIR

John wrote:

> As long as pcl6.exe is in the vdos directory, any HP LJ driver (NB3 must have one?) should work.

That should be useful, at least at one important location, since two of the printers in our office are HP -- although one is a recent inkjet model.

Carl,

That said, I would find it more widely useful than the Ghostscript option if I could just somehow work through a regular Windows printer dialog that came up, allowing direct address to a much broader array of latter day printers. (And which would therefore include access to wireless printing.) But it sounds like that is not an option here (?), and the only way to achieve that is via the use of current NB ?

Jordan

From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: New U2 frame DDIR

Jordan,

> ... the one really important thing that I never really sorted out and
> missed was the printing capability.

Printing is easy with vDos-lfn and the XyWrite installer. Choose the
option to install GhostScript, and in XyWrite 4, load POSTGHST.PRN as
your printer file. Without further configuration, the TY (or PRINT)
command should print to a PDF that opens in your default PDF
viewer/editor. From there you can print to any Windows printer.

--
Carl Distefano
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