Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!shawnee.cis.ohio-state.edu!tj From: tj@shawnee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DeskJet Plus Drivers? Keywords: DeskJet Printers Drivers Passengers Message-ID: <58403@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 23 Aug 89 18:08:05 GMT References: <931@censor.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Todd R. Johnson Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Lines: 38 In article <931@censor.UUCP> hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble) writes: < I'm the proud new owner of an HP DeskJet Plus printer and I think I'll be < pleased with it. I find though that the Preferences driver for the < DeskJet (no plus) doesn't support the new features of the plus, specifically < the faster graphics performance, and the latest, greatest proportionally < spaced Times Roman Softfonts. < < If anyone has news of a driver for the DeskJet Plus that is available or < underway, I'd be pleased if you sent me email. < < I expect to get a lot of use from the DJ+ printing Postscript output from < Professional Page via Printscript, as well as AmigaTeX output of some math, ^^^^^^^^ I just started playing with the dvi driver family from science.utah.edu. This includes drivers for the HP LaserJet and LJ+. If these aren't directly compatible with the DeskJet, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to modify one. After only a few days, I succeeded in modifying the Imagewriter driver to work for a C-Itoh 8510. The bulk of the driver code is independent of the specific device. Very few changes were required to get the code to compile under Lattice 5.0.2. If enough people are interested, I can make this available for anonymous ftp. The code is not completely ported yet --- I still need to get virtual fonts option working. The virtual font code uses fstat which is not a Lattice supplied function. If anyone has an Amiga version of fstat, I'd appreciate a copy. ---Todd -=- ---Todd tj@cis.ohio-state.edu