Re: Font question

On Apr 27, 7:28 pm, Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote:
Plain text doesn't have a font. The only way you could associate a
fond with a plain text file would be by settings on your print job or
print queue or printer.

A J. Gleixner asked: Where medium are you printing it to?

And by what mechanism on what OS?

I'm using Fedora 6 and a Perl-script reading from MySQL printing plain
text to a DeskJet520.
If plain text doesn't have a font, then how can I set this printer to
print the correct font? It seems to use PCL5, but I haven't been able to
find a way to use that from Perl.

Are you opening the printer directly as /dev/whatever or are you
sending the output via lpr? If you are using lpr then there are
probably switches you can use to specify the font to be used for pain
text.

I don't know which of the many lpr implementations available on Linux
Fedora will install by default.

If you are talking direct to /dev/whatever (or using lpr in raw mode)
I don't think there are any PCL modules as such in Perl but there's
nothing stopping you looking up the escape sequence in a PCL manual
and manually doing print("\e(s4099T") [1].

[1] That's untested. I just did a quick Google and glanced at the
following HP manuals:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13210/bpl13210.pdf
http://lprng.sourceforge.net/DISTRIB/RESOURCES/DOCS/pcl5comp.pdf


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