Brian:

I admit I cheated a little bit. I put the bitmap of the signature into
Microsoft Word and created the raster graphics by doing a Print to File
using a Laserjet print driver. Then I used a hex editor to clean up the
file and add the necessary commands to make it a macro. Uploaded it to the
HP as a binary file.

That is where the "almost free" part comes in. It is a tedious and time
consuming process. Oh, BTW, you will need to download it to the printer as
string of characters, not as records like a standard spool file. I recall
that some time ago there was a posting with a sample program to do that
written in C. My version does it within the program.

Doug Werth
Beechglen Development Inc.
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> From: Brian W Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Laser printed signatures
> Date: Tuesday, January 07, 1997 10:20 AM

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> If it is a graphic (and a signature would be)  how do you download it
> unless you have converted it to a raster first. I don't know about you
> but creating a Raster Macro for a graphic takes forever. You effectively
> have to recreate the bitmap pixel by pixel. Or have I missed something.
>
> On another note since we are talking about laser stuff. I have written a
> program in QUIZ  to print out deposit slips. It writes to a serially
> connected, spooled, stock 5si from the 3000. I don't like the courier
> font however it is the only fixed width font the will allow the decimals
> to line up. Is there a way that I can either;
> 1) easily create a font that has a space and comma characters that is the
> same width as all the numbers.
> 2) a way to dynamically in quiz replace each space (in a number pictured
> field) with 2 spaces since for Arial the space character is half the
> width of each of the number characters.
>
> I speak PCL, PJL or HPGL but the above is greek to me......
>
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