Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Printing with printer control fonts from HTML

13: Re: Printing with printer control fonts from HTML (response to 1)

Posted by David Siktberg on 11/13/02 05:42 PM

Great! Section 4.3 in the printer manual says the special functions can also be invoked by single special characters without using the control font, IF you are not using an "Extended" font. Is the regular font you are using Extended? (see the list in 4.1) Character 81H corresponds to the control font A, and will open the drawer. 81H=129 decimal or  , which by my O'Reilly HTML reference is not supported, but give it a try anyway. You might also try  which is supported in HTML, and is also defined as a drawer-opening command.

There is more relevant stuff in the documentation that I haven't read in detail, but let's try this now. If it doesn't work, we can probe further.

14: Re: Printing with printer control fonts from HTML (response to 13)

Posted by Brian Fenton on 11/14/02 11:06 AM

Hi Ash. Tried that already. No joy. 😟

David,
yes I already tried one of the other non-Extended fonts (10cpi). Again the problem appears to be that IE can't see the printer fonts.

I think your other idea about which ASCII characters tell it to switch to the control font is worth chasing.

Thanks for the suggestions!