Re: [Omniprint-user] Problem with HP-LaserJet_III

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hey Terry,

The values in the hard copy caps used to be in hundredths of a millimeter
but were later expanded to be in
thousandths of a millimeter to avoid conversion losses between inches and
millimeters in form sizes.
I have just updated docs/HowToCreateADevice.  Hopefully, that was the last
place which referenced the old
unit size.

You are on the right track.  Please be aware of the DeviceTester program.
If you call it as follows:
     DeviceTester drawbox driver libHP_LaserJet_III.so cout output1.prn
cerr output1.err && cp output1.prn /dev/lp0

It will draw a box around the printable area of the page.  The right and
bottom sides will have incremental lines
to help determine how many pels are missing from the sides.

Yeah, I know the spaces in file names causes problems, but I think that the
advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
I wish they would fix the bugs in the command line programs because space
is a valid filename character.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni printer driver at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/