Odd FilePRO Question
Frank Gemeinhardt
frank7767 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 14:50:18 PST 2022
*The attached is an example of how they want the invoice body to look.*
Regards
Frank
JDPROD !.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1COcV13hVnH80H-KwxxahVnqita0oEFky/view?usp=drive_web>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 6:15 PM laura.k.brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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*
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> > Regards,
> > ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> >
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>
> 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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