Odd FilePRO Question

Wed Feb 16 18:15:14 PST 2022

Frank has a couple of projects that he asked me to give him a hand with.  This is one of them. Laura Brody Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> Date: 2/16/22  8:37 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: "laura.k.brody" <laura.k.brody at gmail.com> Cc: laura at hvcomputer.com, Frank Gemeinhardt <frank7767 at gmail.com>, Filepro_List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> Subject: Re: Odd FilePRO Question The Print Wizard approach I described will work with this, provided there is enough horizontal space.Laura, are you involved in this potential project, or just clarifying Frank's requirements?On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, laura.k.brody wrote:> The goal is to print invoices. There is a normal heading in English.  Then> some invoice lines. Those lines would look like this:> > 3 cases.   Eggplant [chinese characters]  $18.46> 2 cases.    Oranges [chinese characters]  $12.25> > > Followed by a standard grand total and footer in English > > Laura Brody > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone> > > -------- Original message --------> From: Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com>> Date: 2/16/22 7:54 PM (GMT-05:00)> To: laura at hvcomputer.com> Cc: Frank Gemeinhardt <frank7767 at gmail.com>, Filepro_List> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>, Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com>> Subject: Re: Odd FilePRO Question> > It's true that Print Wizard (my product) can be used to print Chinese> and many other scripts (languages). Sticking to the printing aspect of> this for a minute, in Filepro, you could store the Chinese text in UTF-8> mode. Alter a printcode file (some HP PCL .PRT file) to have a "start> Chinese font" printcode, and use it. After printing the Chinese, you would> have to use a new start-font code and also a horizontal positioning code> -- the Chinese text will take a width different from the number of bytes.> > If you want to DISPLAY this text on the screen, that's another can of> worms. If it's stored as UTF-8, I believe filePro will display it either> as a string of garbage characters (the default), or properly in Chinese> (if your terminal emulator can run in UTF-8 mode, such as Anzio can), but> the width it occupies on the screen will be wrong.> > If you want to INPUT Chinese directly into filePro, you'll need to use a> terminal emulator that can deal with UTF-8 encoding. Again, Anzio can do> this, including pasting from the clipboard.> > In practical terms, I'd suggest you try printing but not displaying or> inputting.> > Other notes:> > 1) Everything I said about Chinese would be true about most other> languages as well. But don't try Arabic or Farsi, which go right to left.> > 2) Printed Chinese can be "traditional" or "simplified". (Spoken Chinese> can be Cantonese or Mandarin).> > 3) The printcode to "start Chinese" doesn't actually have to choose a font> (typeface). Print Wizard can do automatic font selection.> > 4) Some HP (and other) PCL-5 printers can print Chinese using built-in> fonts. It might be possible to implement a system of printcodes that would> work with either Print Wizard or directly to the printer.> > 5) Print Wizard could also convert printed output to PDF.> > 6) I can not promise to support Print Wizard forever.> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:> > > I couldn't think of the name of the program, so I dug around. Printwizard> > was the program.> > <https://www.anzio.com/content/print-wizard>> >> > Many filePro developers have used this program for many years. Highly> > recommended> >> > Laura Brody> >> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:55 PM laura.k.brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com>> > wrote:> >> >> To clarify, the Chinese characters appear on invoice lines, not just at> >> the heading area like a logo image?> >>> >>> >> You would have to have a filepro file with one field of english> >> description and a gif or other graphic file of the chinese image. You> could> >> use a blob or just a filename path to the image file.> >>> >> There are a couple of programs that would allow you to print the images> in> >> the invoice.> >>> >> Laura Brody> >>> >>> >> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone> >>> >>> >> -------- Original message --------> >> From: Frank Gemeinhardt via Filepro-list> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> >>> >> Date: 2/16/22 4:45 PM (GMT-05:00)> >> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> >> Subject: Odd FilePRO Question> >>> >> *I have a prospective customer who insists on printing Chinese characters> >> on his invoices.  The vocabulary is limited to names of produce items.  > I> >> am at a total loss. *> >>> >> *Has anyone encountered such a request before?*> >> *Server is linux*> >>> >> *Regards*> >> *Frank Gemeinhardt*> >> -------------- next part --------------> >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> >> URL: <> >>http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20220216/45> 0f74ac/attachment.html> >>>> >> _______________________________________________> >> Filepro-list mailing list> >> Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes> >> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list> >>> > -------------- next part --------------> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> > URL:<http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20220216/5> 61b408f/attachment.html>> > _______________________________________________> > Filepro-list mailing list> > Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes> > http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list> >> > Regards,> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.> > personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com>   company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com>            voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)>              fax: (US) 503-624-0760>              web: http://www.anzio.com>   street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.         NEW ADDRESS AS OF AUGUST> 1, 2020>                   8835 SW Canyon Lane, Suite 401>                   Portland, OR  97225  USA> >Regards,....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)             fax: (US) 503-624-0760             web: http://www.anzio.com  street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.         NEW ADDRESS AS OF AUGUST 1, 2020                  8835 SW Canyon Lane, Suite 401                  Portland, OR  97225  USA
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