tony@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Della Fera) (03/07/86)
We have been using the LN03 for dumping window system raster raster images (B&W of course). It is an "OK" printer for that use but you need to use two RAM cartridges to get ANY amount of usable memory out of it. You also have to "sixelize" you data in order to get it out in the appropriate sixel bands. This is not too bad but you do run into a lot of "band too complex" errors (i.e., too may black to white and white to black transitions per band). Sigh, it was never intended to be a "real" printer. If one had access to the font format you could encode the raster info into a font and then down load the font, that is what we do for some of our other printers. From the wonderful world of window systems, Tony...
crl@NEWTON.PURDUE.EDU (Charles R. LaBrec) (03/07/86)
The font format is available from DEC in a document called "Common Hardware/Software Font File Format", or something like that. Charles LaBrec crl @ newton.PURDUE.EDU