[Coco] M.E.S.S. Printing

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 13:17, Brian Hostetler wrote:
>I was just wondering if anyone has figured out how to print graphics
> in MESS.  I have figured out how to print to a file, which works
> fine for text documents.  I want to print several Cocomax drawings
> on my inkjet printer under Windows XP.  I used to have a Star
> Gemini 10X and Cocomax has the driver for this.  When I print to
> file, it makes the print file about 32k in size.  Evidently this is
> in Gemini 10X printer graphics format.  I need to figure out how to
> convert this file into a bitmap or anything useable by windows that
> can be printed.  The print file data does not look that complicated
> (hexadecimal).  Has anyone written a DOS/Windows utility to convert
> any coco printer graphics formats into a standard image type? 
> (It'd be pretty cool to make the print file's pixels round dots on
> a full page bitmap about the size of a 9-pin printer's) Thanks!
>                                    -Brian Hostetler

I'm not a windows user, never have been, never will be, but...

Can you not send it to the printer as a "raw" file, one thats printer 
ready and requires no further manipulation by any windows driver?

I've sent the ghostscript output to a file and used the resultant file 
to make many copies on several different systems, so it seems there 
should be a way to do it in windows too.

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