Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer Message-ID: <1991Apr05.201810.19705@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 20:18:10 GMT References: <9104051600.AA19825@apple.com> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 13 Okay, so it won't support character-oriented output currently. Would it be possible to build, cheaply, a between-box which would take character data from the host, convert it to TrueType, and give it to the StyleWriter? Such a box would allow it to be used from 8-bit Apple II applications, printing in nice, crisp, mono-spaced font, single size. When a driver comes out, flip a switch, and the box becomes invisible (to the machine, fool). Probably not as simple as that, but it is an idea. -- /// ____ \\\ "It says, `Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B, Hold 7, Telephone | |/ / \ \| | Sanitizer, Second Class,' and a serial number." "A telephone \\_(\____/)_// sanitizer? A dead telephone sanitizer?" "Best greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu kind." "But what's he doing here?" "Not a lot."