[Coco] print samples

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Torsten Dittel <Torsten at dittel.info> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> this looks impressively good. How did you get the font?
>

thanks :)  I "got" the font by typing in each letter bit by bit.. only
did up to 128 because the rest are italics and I got tired of typing
them in..  here's a sample of what I did:

# zero
c48
000011100
000100010
000000000
001000001
000000000
001000001
000000000
000100010
000011100

# one
c49
p8
000000000
000000000
001000010
000000000
001111111
000000000
001000000

> I assume you have access to that document:
>
> ftp://download.epson-europe.com/pub/download/182/epson18162eu.zip
>

yep, i read this to get the appearance of the characters and the control codes

> BTW, does someone remember the differences between the FX80, FX85 and FX-85+
> (I had one of the latter)?
>
> I should really dig out that enhanced CoCo printer driver I once wrote to
> print out Mac pictures from the CoCo. This would be a stress test for you
> application in terms of graphics printing.
>
> Don't know what was your idea, but you might want to "print" a
> single-strike-single needle dot as a grey point optionally. As soon as two
> dots overlap horizontally and/or vertically (e.g. because of double strike,
> just the slower horizontal carriage movement, or because of a second strike
> after the "half-point" vertical µ Line Feed, they should turn pitch black
> where overlapping.
>

yes I want to do something additive with overlapping areas, instead of
pure black everywhere.  need to learn more about java's 2d interface
but I think it can do this pretty well.  I'll make things like this
adjustable at some point.

> I darkly remember the NLQ Times New Roman Fonts where printed by double
> striking with a half-point vertical andd horizontal offset
>
> Keep on with that great project!
>

will do :)  next up is graphics mode, but want to get things looks
right in text first

> Regards,
> Torsten
>
>
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