Re: .LIS format

[Don Mellen <donm@ONTKO.COM>]

Roy,

The .lis file is entirely determined by the declare-printer/-PRINTER:xx
etc.  It is everything (escape sequences, et. al.) that's sent to the
different printer types. Postscript will get you 100's of lines of
postscript setup info before any of your data appears in the file.  There
is a -nolis option which will produce a printer independent .spf file (sqr
viewer is best to look at these).  the sqrp (or sqrwp from windows)
command can take an .spf file and make a printer specific .lis file (or
any new name using -F).

HTH,
Don


On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Roy, Russell wrote:

>    Does anyone know what SQR command determines how the .lis file will
> be generated?  In other words, most of the time if I 'view' the .lis
> file in DOS mode the file will have a printer initialization string as
> the first line and the remainder of the file is formated just as the
> report would be on paper (nearly).  However,  sometimes each record in
> the .lis file has printer commands with some data appended to the end of
> the line (these printer commands have the horizontal and vertical
> positioning).  I believe it has something to do with using the
> DECLARE-PRINTER or DECLARE-LAYOUT command.   If it is, then I'm looking
> for some way to use these commands but also have the output in the
> 'viewable' format.
>

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