OT: PCL line background shading

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:02:31AM -0700, Jim Asman wrote:
> If you are masochistic and want to lay wad of printcodes on the output format, 
> then the code to draw a gray rectangle @ 10% ...
> 
> $1b *c2400a50b10g2P
> 
> You will have to position the gray to it aligns with the text.

That's at absolute coordinates, then?  I was hoping it might be
possible to save the current cursor position (as Bill's code comments
seem to suggest he's doing), then draw a wide rectangle from there, and
restore (maybe with a tiny move in front).

Or is that what you just said?

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