Re: Using GRAPHICS SQR Commands winth a CANON Laser Printer

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

> I began to use SQR as a 2.14 version on VAX VMS Computer.
> When we received the 2.27 version, I very very enjoy to know that it
> will be now possible to design a real report with caraters attributs and
> boxes and other graphics features. But very  very fastly I have been
> desapointed because this new version knows only HP LaserJet printers or
> Postcript printers and so today when we install the last 3.00 version.
> Our site is equiped with near 100 CANON Laser non postcript Printers and
> I am stupified why MITI is not interested to supply others drivers for
> other kinds of printer devices ????
>
>      Does somedy wrote specials SQR procedures for printing specials
> attributs (bold,shadow,reverse,underline, etc...), boxes, tables and
> others to any CANON Laser printer like Canon LBP-8 III , Canon LBP-8 IV
> , Canon LBP-1260 C.
> If yes I enjoy to use them. Thanks.

I continue to be baffled as to why MITI chose to create their own
portable print file format, instead of using Adobe's PDF
viewer/printer technology.

You might be able to generate Postscript, and then use a product
called Ghostscript to convert the postscript into that needed by
your Canon laser printer.  Ghostscript is available in free, shareware,
and commercial versions, and is used for converting PS for use on
many different printers and displays.  I'll bet they have a version
for VAX/VMS to support your Canon printers.

For information, look at:

   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Ray
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