Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer

[Stephen Barncard]

Pour through the manual and see if you can find anything about how 
the printer uses tabs. Also try and select a monospaced font.

A Web browser would make a lousy print layout tool.

Your workflow description is not clear; what exactly are you trying 
to accomplish?



>Say, I'm writing an app for a company that prints shipping paperwork 
>on a 24-pin OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer.? I've started off by 
>getting my hands on some working Excel spreadsheets that print to 
>the printer, with the correct character positioning and spacing to 
>fix exactly in the right spaces on the page printout.
>
>My questions are:
>
>1)? Is there a way I can somehow detect the character positioning 
>that spits of out Excel, so that I can replicate it in Revolution 
>and print to the printer?
>
>and
>
>2)? I'm also toying with the idea of making the printout entirely 
>web-browser based - - - if I did that, I'd still need to work on 
>getting the exact character-positioning for the printer.? Any 
>drawbacks?
>
>and
>
>3)? In the event that regular ol' HTML browser text doesn't work, 
>anyone know of I can somehow dynamically create a PDF document from 
>a web-server that could be printed that would do the same thing?
>

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stephen barncard
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