mss@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Sherman) (09/07/85)
I am trying to write a new printer driver. The Printer Manager seems to leave out a lot of details. It implies that the control calls that the driver will receive are simply "print bitmap", "print uninterpreted character codes" and some carriage control (CR with a specified number of vertical movement in dots). I'm sure there is more to it than that -- in fact, I expected to have to respond to all quickdraw calls, or at least specify which I can handle and which I want quickdraw to translate into a bit map for me. If I want to take advantage of my printer's high level printing commands (Postscript level), do I have to install my own basic Quickdraw routines when my driver is setup so that I can change them into appropriate "character commands"? Can someone tell me where this information is hidden? -Mark (mss@Dartmouth.csnet)