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Subject: Re: Question on printing and drawers
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:40:54 +0200
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Hello Jim,

Am 19.07.2025 um 02:47 schrieb Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx>:

The previous post may be all you need, but a note that many use AFPDS printer files printing on lasers that have no IPDS card.

Yes, this is — as you've marked clearly — enabled through transform(*yes). What I have tested is that HPT limits the available fonts to Courier and something else monospaced. At least bold print is also available. Sending IPDS data to a "real" IPDS printer yields much more available font choices.

(I've grabbed an old S-P-E EBox IPDS adapter quite a while ago. An external box, connected to network and printer. IPDS jobs over TCP come in, and a connected printer — via parallel port — gets the translated data.)

Sadly, AFPDS/IPDS is too much of a niche for people to create yet another GhostScript incarnation for converting AFPDS/IPDS data to everything else the base code of GhostScript supports.

:wq! PoC

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