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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 wish list-Printer Support
Keywords: Printer Driver maker/patcher needed
Message-ID: <2969@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 21:03:29 GMT
References: <6984@ecsvax.UUCP> <6850@cbmvax.UUCP> <6996@ecsvax.UUCP> <6863@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka)
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Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <6863@cbmvax.UUCP> daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) writes:
>
>	If there is any specific feature you feel is missing from any of
>our supported drivers, please email me the specifics and I'll look at it
>for the V1.4 release.
>
>	Regards, David Berezowski

Dave,
   Something that is very much missing is unsupported feature
   emulation. If a particular printer does not support a feature,
   say leftmargin set, then the driver should emulate that feature.
   Since the drives don't do this, it would be silly for a program
   to use any of these features that might not work.
   Doing this would of course make the "generic" printer driver
   one of the hardest. It could then be simplified for
   smart printers by removeing the emulation stuff.

   Another nice thing would be a "preview" driver, which would support
   text and graphics features in a window on screen.

   Oh, I think youall have done a very good job with the 1.3 drivers!
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