Custom page size
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Topic: Custom page size
Posted By: Hopeful
Subject: Custom page size
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 4:58AM
| I want to use QuickPDF to generate a receipt on a POS printer which uses continuous paper. I could still treat this as a page (rather than continuous), it would just be a really long page, e.g. 16". Any suggestions? |
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Posted By: ukobsa
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 6:40AM
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Hm, do you think that this is a good idea? Is there a reason that you cannot use POS printers language to print the receipt?
greetings, Ulrich |
Posted By: Hopeful
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 6:57AM
I think it's an excellent idea  I would rather not be tied to a particular manufacturer or model of receipt printer and also be forced to use fixed-pitch fonts to allow me to justify columns in the receipt.
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Posted By: chicks
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 12:08PM
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I work with Ithaca, Epson, Star and Citizen receipt printers, and wouldn't even think of using PDF with them.
I developed a custom print engine in Java and a markup language which can interface generically with all of them, but there are a couple of standards (OPOS, JavaPOS) that can also be used. |
Posted By: Hopeful
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 12:13PM
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Do tell, why wouldn't you even think of using PDF? The printer I'm considering scales down A4 web pages to print out. What's the big problem with printing a PDF file to it? |
chicks wrote:Posted By: chicks
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 12:43PM
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Should have qualified a bit - I'm still working with a number of impact and inkjet POS printers, which would be agonizingly slow printing PDF through a printer driver, since everything would have to be printed as an image. They are more than adequately fast in their native language, however.
If you're using one of the high-end thermal recepit printers specifically meant for page printing, like the Star TSP-700, PDF will print just fine. |
Posted By: Hopeful
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 1:34PM
| That's good. Any ideas regarding the custom page length though? |
Posted By: chicks
Date Posted: 19 Jul 06 at 2:03PM
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SetPageDimensions
Description Set the size of the selected page. By default, the parameters should specify the width and height of the page in points. Use the SetMeasurementUnits function to change the units to millimetres or inches. Definition function SetPageDimensions(NewPageWidth As Double, NewPageHeight As Double) As Long Parameters NewPageWidth The new width of the page. NewPageHeight The new height of the page. Returns 0 The page size could not be set. This should never occur. 1 The page was resized successfully. |