W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) (10/25/90)
I am looking for a program that would let me modify an existing
printer driver. I'm using a NEC P6200 with the NEC_Pinwriter driver that
came with WB 1.3. The driver works fine when printing graphics, but when I
try to print foreign characters on the printer (Spanish characters, to be
specific) I find that most of the characters are not done as well as the
printer is capable of producing. For example, an accented 'e' is printed well
(apparently by using the printer's available foreign characters) while the
other vowels are printed using a vowel+backspace+appostrophe sequence. A
more appropiate method would be to either use a vowel+backspace+accent mark
sequence, or better yet, use the printer's built-in foreign charater table. The
vowels look acceptable, but certainly not as correctly or as well as the
printer is capable. The same problem occurs when trying to print umlauts
(the two little dots above some vowels) and other international characters.
The funny thing is that the same thing happened with my old Epson
printer using the WB driver. Perhaps the idea was to define the characters as
genericly as possible so that they would print on a larger number of
printers. Whatever the reason, it annoys me that I seem to have no way to
modify the charater table on the driver to meet my needs.
Any ideas?