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I've recently had a need (for work) to have TN5250 be capable of doing a print screen without setting up lp5250d and sending the data from the AS/400. So, I've added this feature to TN5250 in the Windows & Curses terminals in CVS. Unless problems are found, it will also be included in the next release (which will be soon) but please test it out for me so that we know it works :) WINDOWS: This prints the screen to your printer using the Windows API's GDI calls, so it works with whichever print drivers you have installed, as long as they're capable of printing a bitmap. I've added a Print option to the File menu. When you click File/Print the first time, it will ask you which printer you want using the standard printer dialog, and then send your print screen to that printer. The next time you hit File/Print within the same session, it will simply print without asking you for printer info. I've also added a new config keyword: +local_print_key when this is defined, it will use this local printing style instead of sending the print AID code to the AS/400 if you press the Ctrl-P key or whichever key you'd otherwise use for host-side print key support. UNIX (cursesterm): PostScript data is generated for the screen and sent to your printer using (by default) the lpr command. Because of the calculations needed to print postscript, I've added a number of config keywords: +local_print_key turns the local-side print key support on. outputcommand=CMD command to pipe postscript to (default: lpr) psfontsize_80=NUM size in dots of font in 80 col (default: 10) psfontsize_132=NUM size in dots of font in 132 col (default: 7) pagewidth=NUM width in dots of page (default: 612) pagelength=NUM length in dots of page (default: 792) leftmargin=NUM left margin of page in dots (default: 18) topmargin=NUM top margin of page in dots (default: 36) When +local_print_key is set in your config, the Ctrl-P key (or anything you have mapped to K_PRINT) will pipe a postscript copy of the screen to the specified outputcommand (or lpr if none specified). Personally, I use Ghostscript to convert the postscript to my printer's language, but how you handle the postscript is up to you. Just like lp5250d, you can make your outputcommand do other things, such as "cat - > myfile$$.ps", "ps2pdf - myfile$$.pdf", etc. Just keep in mind that unlike lp5250d, there is no need to use scs2ascii. The postscript is generated locally, the data was never in SCS format. Have fun!
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