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From: | frederick DOT mckenzie-1 AT pp DOT ksc DOT nasa DOT gov (Fred McKenzie) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp.apps |
Subject: | Re: HELP: Icelandic characters !!! |
Date: | Thu, 07 May 1998 14:26:21 -0400 |
Organization: | NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
Lines: | 22 |
Distribution: | inet |
Message-ID: | <frederick.mckenzie-1-0705981426210001@k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov> |
References: | <uOuPg2Se9GA DOT 278 AT ntawwabp DOT compuserve DOT com> |
NNTP-Posting-Host: | k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
In article <uOuPg2Se9GA DOT 278 AT ntawwabp DOT compuserve DOT com>, Karl Roth <101324 DOT 2654 AT CompuServe DOT COM> wrote: > I´m trying to print a simple text file on my DJ500C. This file > has a couple of special Icelandi characters, which print fine > from my Win95. But printing from DOS ... it messes up the > special characters. Karl- The problem is that Windows uses a custom printer driver and DOS doesn't. The Windows printer driver uses the graphics mode of the printer and "paints" the font characters on the page. DOS just ships the characters directly to the printer. The printer uses its built-in font set, which prints some other special characters for the codes corresponding to the ones you need. The only case I know of where you can use a printer driver in DOS, is from within a DOS word processor. I have heard of at least two that did that, but don't recall which they were. Fred
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