Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-vcd!neff From: neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: DeskJet 500 underline problem Message-ID: <980004@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Date: 10 Dec 90 22:41:45 GMT References: <1990Dec6.163104.23721@uvm.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA Lines: 23 Having written much of the DeskJet 500 firmware and having personally run through our regression test suite of PCL escape sequences I assure you the DeskJet 500 can in fact underline :-). I would guess you have some additional escape sequences mixed in with your string. The DeskJet 500 does have specific bitmaps associated with a given font that are used to generate the various kinds of underlines. To do a simple underline your escape sequence should look something like: &d1DThis text will be underlined&d@ Where is of course the escape character (1B Hex). There should be no carriage returns, line feeds, etc. between the escape sequences. I really can't think of what would fully explain what you are seeing. If you could mail me the exact data that is being sent I could maybe see what is happening. If the DeskJet 500 could not underline virtually every word processor in the world would not be able to make the DeskJet 500 underline and I would be stampeded with our product support people complaining at me :-). Dave Neff neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM