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Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-03-01, 12:30

Except of these little incompabilities, printing under LINUX shouldn't be a problem. Just put the fonts into your DOSBOX directory, select postscript as output method in dosbox.conf, print in your DOS program, then print the created .ps file using Ghostscript or a similar tool.

Re: Lpt port

Posted on 2004-02-29, 21:51

No, this is not possible (unless you change the code of DOSBOX). See this thread for more details (it's about com ports but the information given there also applies to lpt ports).

Re: v. 0.61 messes The Dig up

Posted on 2004-02-28, 14:28

The messages are related to the new paging support -- assuming that they are actually "Illegal read from xxxx". This is a new feature that wasn't there in DOSBOX 0.60 and probably isn't 100% perfect yet. I don't think this is related to the host hard- or software. gidierre, Xerxes, could you two …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-28, 14:16

For some reason, I'm missing some DLL files. If its not too much trouble, could you ZIP up your whole DOSBox dir so I get all the DLLs? Well, that IS my DOSBOX dir.. :happyhappy: Just install DOSBOX 0.61. That will give you all the DLLs you need. The printer doesn't require extra dynamic libraries …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-28, 01:34

Can someone compile DOSBox with this included for Win32? I'm having some issues... Here you go. You also need the fonts I posted above and put them into the DOSBOX directory. Hopefully the virtual printer will get into the CVS (and rjpa's compilations) soon so more people can check out this feature …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-24, 16:15

Due to popular demand (well, two people :lol: ), I have added support for outputting the virtual pages as Postscript files. As candacow pointed out, these file can be easily viewed, printed and converted to PDF using Ghostview (or similar tools). This way, the output is rather OS-independent. …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 23:49

I cleaned up the code, fixed a few bugs and implemented the outstanding ESC/P commands. The printer should now be ready to be included in the CVS, so submitted a patch. Attached are the fonts required by the printer.

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 19:29

I would suggest dropping both PNG support and Win32 support and have DosBox output PostScript instead. This would maintain compatibility as such files could be directly piped to postscript printers, converted to PDF on the fly using Acrobat Distiller, or viewed and printed using GhostScript. Adding …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 15:59

IMHO, the direct printing option isn't really hurting the emulation concept of DOSBOX. Probably my description was misleading here: Even with direct printing on, the virtual printer does not directly forward the printer commands he gets to the actual printer. It still creates the page as image and …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 15:34

Mmh, host printing is surely one of the most tricky features of the virtual printer so just discarding it is a tempting idea.. :lol: On the other hand, the support for Win32 is already there and it should work fine on all windows versions from Win98 on so I do really see the point to remove it. …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 14:43

Update: The newest version of the printer is able to send the data directly to an actual printer under Win32 (where this is easy to realize). For the other OSes, it will PNG output unless I find a good printing library. The default output method is png image creation, direct printing needs to be set …

Re: Sourceforge CVS

Posted on 2004-02-17, 04:27

Finally! Anon CVS access is up-to-date again: It appears that for some time now, updates from the developer CVS repository have not been flowing to anonymous CVS servers used for pserver and ViewCVS access. This problem has been rectified and all repositories are currently up-to-date. SourceForge. …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 03:04

If you want source to look at and not necessarily a library, I recomment the following projects: UAE - Universal Amiga Emulator Basilisk II - 68k Macintosh Emulator I believe both of those have printer output code for Unix, Mac, and Win32 in their code. If you're interested, I'll find you the exact …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-17, 01:37

Next update: Implemented virtually all ESC/P commands Implemented most ESC/P2 commands Page output is in PNG format now The features that are now missing to get a complete emulation of a 48-pin EPSON matrix printer are the definition of own characters, raster and TIFF graphics and (maybe) colors..

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-16, 22:39

mirekluza wrote: There is just one thing which would have to be taken care off - using some other format instead of BMP (too big). I think that for screenshots "libpng" is used, perhaps you could use it as well. Good suggestion.. I did a little Copy&Paste and the printer now outputs nice (and small …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-16, 19:03

Another small update: Implemented the LPT1/PRN device and the DOS function "Print character". Started to implement ESC/P2 commands Breeze and Bolo Adventures III are now working nicely. Dungeon Hack isn't sending any data to the printer through any of the four available ways (BIOS, DOS, direct write …

Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-15, 23:07

A few small updates: Added support for different codepages. This solves the problem with semi-graphic symbols and allows printing of some foreign texts For now, the key ALT-F8 is the "Eject current page" key. This forces DOSBOX to save the internal buffer to a BMP, then clear the page. Helps with …

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