filePro and symbols

GCC Consulting gccconsulting at comcast.net
Tue Jun 17 06:26:17 PDT 2008 

George,

What type of form are they printing from filePro that would allow them to
enter text?

Are you using the memo field option to print letters?

If you are using the memo field for a form, have you considered exporting
the text to a file and then importing this into a word processor where the
smiley or other fancy formatting can be done?

What type of printer is your client using?

If it is one that will accept downloadable fonts(graphic), you might be able
to find the smiley faces they want.  Then either download this to the
printer or call it from the print table as needed.

Currently I am doing this with a scissor image on a form letter to indicate
"cut on the dotted line". 

You can store the various images in a directory(folder) and in your
processing create a list box of available images.  The problem is going to
be how to get the image into the form at the proper place as this is a
variable.

In my case I used Jim Asman's make PCL program to create the image file and
stored the coordinates in the print code.  That will be the hard part,
getting the placement coordinates to be correct.

  
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com
>
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com]
On
> Behalf Of George
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:39 AM
> To: 'Steve Wiltsie'; 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: filePro and symbols
> 
> Thanks, Steve.
> I'm trying to replace a user-defined symbol or group of characters with
the
> smiley, but have not found a way to accomplish that.  The only way I know
> would be to replace the character(s) with a chr() and I have not found one
> that gives me a smiley or heart.
> My customers use Windows.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
>
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com]
> On Behalf Of Steve Wiltsie
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: filePro and symbols
> 
> 
> George,
> 
> You probably need to send the print job through a print filter that can
scan
> 
> for certain text combinations and replace them with something else.  Years
> ago we had something like that which would print a POSTNET bar code on
> letters or labels through filePro or any SCO XENIX or Unix based program
> that printed to the spooler.  The filter would look for a certain sequence
> of characters and then turn the next 5, 9, or (I think) 11 characters into
a
> 
> POSTNET bar code at the same position the characters would have appeared.
> We had to have the print filter tested and accepted by the Postal Service
> and even then it was only certified for the printers we demonstrated it
on.
> 
> Recently I worked with a customer to have the Unibar software people
modify
> Barzout so it could look for a code to produce "reverse video" (white
> letters on black background) printing on demand based on finding a {
symbol
> in the text of a document to turn on reverse video printing and a } to
turn
> it back off.  Yes, the users do understand the importance of not using
those
> 
> symbols for anything else and yet we had to go with a single character
> on/off code because anything more would be "too complicated".
> 
> Maybe one of these ideas would work for you.  However, these were both for
> SCO operating systems.  What is your customer on?
> 
> Steve Wiltsie
> microCONCEPTS Div. multi/user/inc.        Since 1981
> (812) 474-0127
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George" <flowersoft at compuserve.com>
> To: "'Jim Asman'" <jlasman at telus.net>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:25 PM
> Subject: RE: filePro and symbols
> 
> 
> > Thanks, Jim.
> > However, as I explained to Bob, I need to be able to let the user place
> > these characters wherever they choose on the field.
> > I added new print codes to the table as you suggested and the smileys
and
> > hearts print fine but I need to be able to either show them on the
screen
> > or
> > replace a pre-defined group of characters such as :-) with the smiley
when
> > the form is printed.
> > I don't think there is a way to insert a print code into a field, is
> > there?
> > When I try to use the chr("1,2 or 3")I get the filePro box function
> > characters.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
> >
>
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com]
> > On Behalf Of Jim Asman
> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:45 AM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Re: filePro and symbols
> >
> >
> > --------------- 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
> > --
> > jlasman at telus.net                      Spectra Colour Services Ltd.
> > Jim Asman                              10221 144a Street
> > Phone: (604)584-0977                   Surrey, BC  V3R 3P7   CANADA
> >
> > Cell: (604)619-0977                   www.spectracolorservices.com
> >
> 
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