Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!amdahl!pyramid!batcomputer!johnth From: johnth@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Thurtell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Intercepting printer output Message-ID: <379@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 02:25:33 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.379 Posted: Tue Mar 10 02:25:33 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 23:02:54 EST Reply-To: johnth@batcomputer.UUCP (John Thurtell) Distribution: na Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 39 .... I have a couple of question about how to work with printers on the amiga. 1) How do I get data which would normally be sent to the printer redirected to a file? ie I want to print on a preferences supported printer which is not attached to my computer so I would like to be able to generate a file with the correct codes etc which I could move and dump. How do I reassign the printer output to a file? 2) I want to be able to print out files using different fonts. This should be easy but does not seem to be so. I guess the note pad does such a poor job because it thinks of a page of text as a picture. To get good looking text you need to think about it a bit differently. (?) (Have I missed something? Can the notepad print clean text? How?) Anyway I think I can generate the appropriate binary code to print in different fonts but I would like to do this in a general way through preferences so that if I change printers I don't need to change my routines. I want to know if I can get pref. to put my printer into graphics mode and then send it the the exact pixel representation I send to it. No interpretation, no scaling,... I'll do all of that. 3) Can somebody tell me what the structure of the graphics font library is. I've been playing with writing a letter to the screen, reading the bits off the screen and translating them into resolution appropriate to my printer. It would be faster if I could just read the bitmap out of the library. How do I do it? 4) Why has this not been done befor? Am I the only one who wants to be able to print in different fonts? How about a simple program that takes a notepad document, fixes the resolution and prints it out. It should be a one or two evening hack for somebody with all the manuals. (hint hint, I don't have all the manuals yet and I won't have the time for a few months anyway.) John Thurtell | A day without computers is | like a day without ...? hm johnth@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu | I can't remember a day without p8ty@cornellf.bitnet | computers.