c8748411@cc.nu.oz (06/05/90)
Greetings ....... I need some help. Does anybody out there know how to write a printer driver? What I want to do is to have a printer driver that has all the information sent to it from whatever package and then, rather than do all the tricky convert-to-specific-printer stuff, it saves it all as ascii file. That way I can do my work, print it out, divert the output onto disk, get that file to my mate who, say, might have a very lovely colour printer (the bastard) and he can print my file out from CLI. Sounds smashing what? So, if you can help, please, PLEASE get back to me. Thankyou. The GAMMA Play.
matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) (06/05/90)
In article <1846.266b88f7@cc.nu.oz> c8748411@cc.nu.oz writes: > > What I want to do is to have a printer driver that has all the >information sent to it from whatever package and then, rather than do all >the tricky convert-to-specific-printer stuff, it saves it all as ascii file. >That way I can do my work, print it out, divert the output onto disk, get that >file to my mate who, say, might have a very lovely colour printer (the bastard) >and he can print my file out from CLI. > Sounds smashing what? Certainly does. Good news is that such a program is on the 1.3 workbench disk -- called CMD. There is a version on some fish disk as well, if you don't have WB1.3. -Matt
andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) (06/05/90)
In article <1846.266b88f7@cc.nu.oz> c8748411@cc.nu.oz writes: > What I want to do is to have a printer driver that has all the >information sent to it from whatever package and then, rather than do all >the tricky convert-to-specific-printer stuff, it saves it all as ascii file. >That way I can do my work, print it out, divert the output onto disk, get that >file to my mate who, say, might have a very lovely colour printer (the bastard) >and he can print my file out from CLI. > All you need is CMD, found on your workbench disk. This utility intercepts the output to the parallel or serial.device (your choice) and puts it into a file in binary form. Then you can print it on some other amiga by copying it to PAR: or SER: andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Not everything worth doing is worth doing well." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
frankjr@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Frank AnthonyJr Busalacchi) (06/05/90)
c8748411@cc.nu.oz writes: >Greetings ....... > I need some help. Does anybody out there know how to write a >printer driver? I do believe that the includes and autodocs have a section on printer drivers. If not, I know that the programmers handbook II by SYBEX has all the information for creating a printer driver. Hope I helped some people... Frank