Rebol Printing System

Hello We have now or soon will have a tool for generating printable documents including graphics. Thank you Gabriele, I will have a look at your enhanced pdf-maker at the weekend. By the way Gabriele, I could not access your site via Rebol/Desktop/Sites, but had no problems with a browser. I thought about a platform neutral way for accessing printers and came to lpr. I had a look at the RFC and hope to finish a scheme next week. This protocol is supported by all Unix/Posix like systems and should work also with WindowsNT. And even for Windows 9x is a solution availabe with LPD-Win from www.kabelmax.de. I guess this program offers even some more ways for accsessing the shell under Windows for non/Pro users.) As I seldom work with other platforms, for which Rebol is available I ask users of the other OSs, what do they think. Is lpd easily available for them ? AR

I haven't used Rebol on my Amiga system yet, as its packed from my recent move! Lpd would not be a good choice for the OS though. There are two ways to print, in general for an Amiga, output can be sent directly to the par port or it can be sent to the prt port. IE. PAR: or PRT: The PAR does no translation whatsoever and is most like a straight binary dump. The PRT port will handle formatting for text, line feeds, etc. You could send a text file to either one and get ok results. The difference is PRT will insert all the proper format strings, etc to make the output look right. PAR will not. If you choose print to file from a program and then want to print the saved file, you would send it to the PAR, since all of the formatting is already done and the PRT would mess things up. I can get more info if you'd like, as I haven't messed with the specifics of printing in awhile. Hope this helps! Aaron

> I haven't used Rebol on my Amiga system yet, as its packed from my recent > move! Lpd would not be a good choice for the OS though. There are two > ways to print, in general for an Amiga, output can be sent directly to the

> port or it can be sent to the prt port. IE. PAR: or PRT: > > The PAR does no translation whatsoever and is most like a straight binary > dump. The PRT port will handle formatting for text, line feeds, etc. > > You could send a text file to either one and get ok results. The > difference is PRT will insert all the proper format strings, etc to make

> look right. PAR will not. > If you choose print to file from a program and then want to print the > Aaron > --