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Re: printer question follow up

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 07, 2003
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thanks, but that's way over me... i'm not a "C" person...

george

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Roger" <kennethroger at comcast.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: printer question follow up


> 
> 
> > Is it possible to print to a printer in a non
> > graphics/bitmap way..... Like a non windows
> > OS  does?  --george
>  
> Here is an example in C. It could be translated into E for exw.
> 
> // lhp.c   --link with winspool.lib
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <windows.h>
> #include <winspool.h>
> 
> char msg1[] = "usage:  lhp file1 file2 ..";
> char prname[] = "\\\\kenneth\\hp";
> char set[] = "\033E\033(s12H\033&l6d6e54F\033&a9l90M\033&k2G";
> // EscE      --reset
> // Esc(s12H  --12 cpi
> // Esc&l6D   --6 lpi
> // Esc&l6E   --6 line top mrgn
> // Esc&l54F  --54 lines per page
> // Esc&a9L   --col 9 end left mrgn
> // Esc&a90M  --col 90 begin right mrgn
> // Esc&k2G   --lf=cr+lf, ff=cr+ff
> 
> void list(FILE *p1, FILE *f1);
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
>   {
>   FILE *f1, *p1;
>   DOC_INFO_1 di;
>   if(argc<2) { printf("%s\n",msg1); return 0; }
>   while(--argc)
>     {
>     printf(*++argv);
>     f1=fopen(*argv,"rb");
>     if(f1)
>       {
>       OpenPrinter(prname,&p1,NULL);
>       di.pDocName=*argv;
>       di.pOutputFile=NULL;
>       di.pDatatype="RAW";
>       if(StartDocPrinter(p1,1,&di) > 0)
>         {
>         StartPagePrinter(p1);
>         list(p1,f1);
>         printf(" is queued on %s\n",prname);
>         EndPagePrinter(p1);
>         EndDocPrinter(p1);
>         }
>       else printf("\ncan't open %s\n",prname);
>       ClosePrinter(p1);
>       fclose(f1);
>       }
>     else printf(" not found\n");
>     }
>   return 0;
>   }
> 
> void list (FILE *p1, FILE *f1)
>   {
>   DWORD nr, nw;
>   char buf[129], last='\0';
>   WritePrinter(p1,set,strlen(set),&nw);
>   do
>     {
>     nr=fread(buf,1,128,f1);
>     if(nr==0) break;
>     buf[nr]='\0';
>     WritePrinter(p1,buf,nr,&nw);
>     last=buf[nr-1];
>     } while(nr==128);
>   if(last!='\f') WritePrinter(p1,"\f",2,&nw);
>   }
>  
> 
> 
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