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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 8-bit chars in printing (WAS:  Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket....)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 13:20:45 GMT
References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <3257@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun18.172133.9891@hou.amoco.com>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
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In article <1991Jun18.172133.9891@hou.amoco.com> zjdg11@hou.amoco.com (Jim Graham) writes:
>I'm (eventually...as soon as I get more documentation into the code) going to
>post a program to alt.sources that will use a reduced fontsize and
>interlineskip, combined with subscripting to produce very small output on
>Epson-flavored dot-matrix printers.  (On a Panasonic KX-P1124, which emulates
>an Epson LQ-2500, after margins, it gets 105 lines/page, and 160 chars/line
>in single column mode, or 77 chars/column in double-column mode.)  One of the
>things I've been concerned about is how to handle printing 8-bit characters.

Humm.  I suppose that you are planning to define your own characters (on
the lower half) and down load them into the printer.  Your characters will
be smaller than the original?

Right?

Now about the 8-bit characters?
If my thought about redefinition, is correct, then I see one answer that
would really fit that program:
Make the 8-bit characters userdefinable, by using an external file or
something.  This file should contain the character matrixes for the 8bit
characters.

I have constructed the character matrixes (9x14) for IBM's codepage 850,
861 and ISO 8859/1 (upper half only)

Maybe they can help you.  Email for further info.

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