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From: robert@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: printing GROBS
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Date: 20 Jun 91 22:47:35 GMT
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*> From: druegeme@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM (#Daniel Ruegemer)
*> Date: 17 Jun 91 09:01:44 GMT
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*> I want to print 'large' graphic-objects with the infrared-printer
*> (82240B). The graphics are more than 131 Pxels long. 
*> For I don't like them having split on the paper, I want them to turn 
*> 90degrees. Does anybody know how to do this ?
*> 
*> Thanks a lot
*> 
*> Daniel
*> 


I posted a program about a year ago that would take a grob and turn it
arround then send it to the printer.  Unfortunately, I dont have it any
more.  If anyone else happened to grab it, please repost it or send it to
Wayne Scott's ftp server.

-Robert Thompson

P.S.  Basically, you need to take the grob string and parse it such that
you scan it vertically and send the resulting pattern to the printer.  As I
recall, the printer manual has information about printing a string as
graphics.  I think you send char 255 to it before the string and it
terminates on a null character (er something like that.)

Good luck.