[Coco] DriveWire printing options

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 01:30:09 EST 2009


On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
>
> My preference is to have the "print" to go to a txt file. That way
> I can view it, edit it, or print it at my descretion. While a pdf
> file has it's uses they can be a pain and nearly impossible to edit.
>

This will definitely be available as an option, since its very simple
to do.  Plus, DriveWire's printing support in current versions
provides this already, so I think it must be included in the new
version too.

-Aaron



> Frank
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:50:02AM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> First off, Merry Christmas to everyone :)
>>
>> As we are finishing up a feature set for the first release of the Java
>> based DriveWire server, I realize that I haven't put in anything for
>> printing support yet.  I don't use printers much myself, never really
>> had much need.
>>
>> What (if anything) would be useful to people in the printing
>> department?  Options range from dumping the bytes to a text file, to
>> displaying them on a web page, to even emulating some sort of Coco
>> printer and rendering the output in a PDF, etc...
>>
>> Anybody still print with their Coco?  If there's something that would
>> be useful, let me know and I'll try to implement it.
>>
>> -Aaron
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