On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:03 , Danial Magid wrote: [..] > > I am trying to put together a process that will format and print out > checks (pay stbus), so I need to do a bit of formatting and combine the > right fonts. > > I was wondering if there are any books or urls I could use for reference.
as david mentioned - this tends to be stuff at the printer layer - in terms of font selection - but you can get basic types of 'formatting' sorted out with things like perldoc perlform At which point you will probably either be working the process of say open(derPrinter, "$printer $printArgs|") or die "not able to popen printer:$!\n"; # do the select foo for derPrinter for the # stuff you want to ship there..... close(derPrinter); you may want to look at the available 'graphics' libraries: http://search.cpan.org/Catalog/Graphics/ the GD family is hot - although the kult of Image::Magick has it's defenders... since if you can get to a basic 'image' then you can normally push that out to most post modern printers. Assuming that your target printer is a network printer that allows TFTP then you might want to scope out: http://search.cpan.org/doc/GSM/TFTP-1.0b3/README or http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Net::TFTP { now it may be a reach to send you to say http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=LEGO-RCX - to have the lego robot go over and change settings... } so there are a whole bunches of routes to a solution that you could try - we'd need to know a few things more about which OS to what printer by which interfaces.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]