On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:29:17 -0500 Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>I have a solution which is somewhat *FREE* (as if anything truly is)
>insofar as it does not require Formation or Fantasia. In a nutshell
>you
>turn the signature into an invokable (sp?) macro on the printer.
>Download
>it and you can call it with a simple escape sequence at any time.
>
>For security I store the signature on the HP 3000 and download it at
>the
>beginning of the spoolfile and delete it from the printer's memory at
>the
>end. Works very well.
>
>Doug Werth
>Beechglen Development Inc.
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>513.922.0509

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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