filePro and symbols

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 01:40A Fri Jun 13 2008, George Simon wrote:

> Is there any way of printing smiley faces, hearts and other symbols from
> filePro?
> 

Typically, you need to change symbol sets, print your character,
and then return back to, presumably, PC-8(10U) symbols. If your output
format is very structured, maybe you can put the whole thing into
a printcode on the format.

Look in the HP "PCL 5 Comparison Guide" for a listing of the character
mappings for each of the supported symbol sets on the HP printers.
Wingdings(579L) and Symbol(19M) offer a lot.

If the heart and smiley face are the most important, those are available
in the PC-8 set, among others, in chr(1)-chr(26).

There is a problem with filepro if you need to use the box drawing
characters. Internally, filepro stores the box characters as chr(0)-chr(10)
depending on the character, and then when printing it consults the
printcode table for the character mapping for that specific printer.

If you look in your printcode table, beginning at code 44 on all the 
HP tables I wrote, you find the pointers to the PC-8 box characters.
So what you can do is to create a new "not box capable" table and
have these pointers point back to themselves. ...

44 $0a
45 $00
46 $01
47 $02
48 $03
49 $04
50 $05
51 $06
52 $07
53 $08
54 $09

If you change the graphic codes to what is shown above you 
should get the appropriate symbol.


Jim 
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