Re: Generic Text Ignores my Escape codes!

Tsunade wrote:
RobertVA wrote:
Tsunade wrote:
Using windows 98, generic text follows my escape codes. But when I use
windows xp, it seems to ignore my font codes. Can anyone tell me how to
solve this problem?

Printing with an application or the command prompt's COPY command?

Printing with the application's print button. The application was
created using Delphi 3. Any help?

I'm still not quite sure what you are attempting.

As near as I can tell from a quick look at some Google search results Delphi is a program development package for Windows published by Borland. Windows is designed so that applications and their data files don't need to (and SHOULDN'T) generate printer model or brand specific codes to switch fonts or text attributes like boldface, italics, underline or even page orientation. This even applies to often emulated printers like Epson dot matrix printers and the early HP Laserjets. all that model specific stuff is supposed to be taken care of by the operating system's printer driver(s).

IF you are selecting the Generic Text "printer" for a windows application's hard copy output, that driver is NOT intended to send anything but printable characters and a FEW codes like carriage returns and line feeds. It's really intended to be a way of generating an unformatted version of a program's print output in the form of a text file. As XP is derived from Windows NT instead of Windows 9x, it might be a little more thorough at stripping the text down to basics than Windows 98.

Try selecting the actual driver for your printer in the application's print dialog. If you are printing from a button that bypasses the print dialog, try setting the actual printer as the default printer in the Windows XP control panel.

IF instead of the above you are trying to print a file that contains print codes, have you tried setting your actual printer driver to capture the LPT1: port and using the command prompt to copy the file to LPT1: ?
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