Atari8guy Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 I'm getting PDF's I can't open... now possible, this is a software issue on my PC, but no other PDF's are giving me trouble. It doesn't matter which printer I use on the fujinet...the PDF's won't open. Anyone else experience this? Details: Atari 800XL with U1MB Lotharek Fujient Printing from Printshop PC is a Windows 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Perchance you can attach the PDF? Or is it a zero length file? It's also worth a look in the debug monitor window in the FujiNet flasher to see what is happening. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 13 minutes ago, tschak909 said: Perchance you can attach the PDF? Or is it a zero length file? It's also worth a look in the debug monitor window in the FujiNet flasher to see what is happening. -Thom printout (36).pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 The file looks well formed in a hex editor. This is what I see from okular: So a bit odd. Can someone else reproduce with Print Shop? (there is a copy on apps.irata.online) -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 so I can open it in firefox, just not in Adobe. This is not surprising, Adobe is maddening software to use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 The exact opposite of how that's supposed to work 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
votraxman Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Is there any way to make printing transparent and send the raw data to an Epson compatible network printer? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzwald Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 19 minutes ago, votraxman said: Is there any way to make printing transparent and send the raw data to an Epson compatible network printer? Nope, just the PDF file that you can send to a modern printer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 2 hours ago, votraxman said: Is there any way to make printing transparent and send the raw data to an Epson compatible network printer? If anyone wants to add it. Go right ahead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl0re Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 On 2/13/2024 at 9:15 PM, mozzwald said: Nope, just the PDF file that you can send to a modern printer Is there a character set that is just plain laser quality instead of looking like a vintage printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TZJB Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 6 hours ago, sl0re said: Is there a character set that is just plain laser quality instead of looking like a vintage printer? Atari 1027 printer emulation should achieve your requirement. It is a typewriter type font and printouts simulate that typeface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzwald Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 11 hours ago, sl0re said: Is there a character set that is just plain laser quality instead of looking like a vintage printer? you could try the "file" or HTML printers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathrynm Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) #!/bin/bash nextfujiprint=$(curl -s -I -X GET http://fujinet/print | grep "^Content-Disposition" | cut -d '"' -f 2) echo -n "$nextfujiprint" > /tmp/.fujiprint while : do fujiprint=$(cat /tmp/.fujiprint) nextfujiprint=$(curl -s -I -X GET http://fujinet/print | grep "^Content-Disposition" | cut -d '"' -f 2) if [[ "$nextfujiprint" != "$fujiprint" ]]; then if [[ ! -z "$nextfujiprint" ]]; then echo Printing "$nextfujiprint" wget http://fujinet/print -O "/tmp/$nextfujiprint" lp -o Duplex=DuplexNoDumble -o PageSize=A4 -o portrait "/tmp/$nextfujiprint" fi fi echo -n "$nextfujiprint" > /tmp/.fujiprint sleep 1 done I know nobody asked for this, but I got tired of downloading PDFs. For me, seems to work on my linux box. I print to fujinet, and this pull pdf files from Fujinet (named fujinet on the network) and send them to my printer. I did get PrintShop to work, not sure why, but the one on tnfs just soft locked at the start, but an ATX I found on archive does work perfectly -- just it's really really slow. Not really fun. I'm trying to remember, didn't these printers have ATASCII graphic characters on them? Thought it might be amusing to just print out some ATASCII art, but for some reason on #fujinet, all my control characters are coming up empty. I swore the Atari 820 and 822 had ATASCII, but it's been a long time. EDIT:Oop, and I google this, and no, it looks like none of these old printers had ATASCII, far as I can tell. Edited March 1 by cathrynm 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Awesome! No, none of the Atari printers do ATASCII, this is why we made the ATASCII printers. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) Atari XMM801 printed international character set and one of the earlier Atari printers had a ROM update near the end of production / in it's lifetime to do Atascii, to what degree I can't recall. Consider a G: device or other driver to print them. Some SIO to printer devices also made Atascii and other graphics happen for printers. I used a black box for an eternity and it had a built in method to print Atascii to just about anything or graphics for that matter. There are a number of threads some including C listings etc to detokenize basic listing and print Atascii etc etc sprinkled about the AA forum and others. The Atari magazines like Analog etc. served up a few method, drivers, and proggies as well also consider this website, he is active on AA, perhaps he could shed some light http://www.vitoco.cl/atari/atasciiprinter.html https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n11/CUSTOM_PRINT.html If you emulated one of the printers that support character set re definition you could just hard code the atascii as the redefined set or part of the emulation to print them directly. This might get rid of some special printer control codes, but if you are printing Atascii, that's not an issue, since you would do your control codes, switch to atascii, print, return to control code mode. (make your own printer in emulation that supports atascii) Printing to a printer itself or getting a PC to auto sense/download and print sounds very nifty indeed. Edited March 1 by _The Doctor__ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Hello guys (m/f/x) 19 hours ago, cathrynm said: #!/bin/bash nextfujiprint=$(curl -s -I -X GET http://fujinet/print | grep "^Content-Disposition" | cut -d '"' -f 2) echo -n "$nextfujiprint" > /tmp/.fujiprint while : do fujiprint=$(cat /tmp/.fujiprint) nextfujiprint=$(curl -s -I -X GET http://fujinet/print | grep "^Content-Disposition" | cut -d '"' -f 2) if [[ "$nextfujiprint" != "$fujiprint" ]]; then if [[ ! -z "$nextfujiprint" ]]; then echo Printing "$nextfujiprint" wget http://fujinet/print -O "/tmp/$nextfujiprint" lp -o Duplex=DuplexNoDumble -o PageSize=A4 -o portrait "/tmp/$nextfujiprint" fi fi echo -n "$nextfujiprint" > /tmp/.fujiprint sleep 1 done I know nobody asked for this, but I got tired of downloading PDFs. For me, seems to work on my linux box. I print to fujinet, and this pull pdf files from Fujinet (named fujinet on the network) and send them to my printer. Could this be adapted to work from inside the Fujinet? Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathrynm Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 2 hours ago, Mathy said: Hello guys (m/f/x) Could this be adapted to work from inside the Fujinet? Sincerely Mathy Not in a straightforward way. What makes this work is having a Linux install with a printer configuration that works with your printer. Fujinet isn't Linux. Might work with something like a Raspberry Pi? Maybe a Pi 0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzwald Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 just an idea, maybe we could add a "server to ping" field in webui for the printer. when a print is done, it sends a message to a local server specified that file is ready. server grabs the pdf and prints it. someone would need to make the server side that does the printing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 of some use? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/share-your-network-printer-c9a152b5-59f3-b6f3-c99f-f39e5bf664c3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Hello mozzwald 9 hours ago, mozzwald said: just an idea, maybe we could add a "server to ping" field in webui for the printer. when a print is done, it sends a message to a local server specified that file is ready. server grabs the pdf and prints it. someone would need to make the server side that does the printing Could this (also) be integrated into the TNFS server code? Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzwald Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 32 minutes ago, Mathy said: Could this (also) be integrated into the TNFS server code? perhaps. I was thinking a separate printing server app to run on pc. TNFS doesn't really have anything to do with printing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 or a wifi/network printer and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathrynm Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 4 hours ago, mozzwald said: perhaps. I was thinking a separate printing server app to run on pc. TNFS doesn't really have anything to do with printing This would be less janky then my bash script. Maybe we could call it 'tcups' -- like tnfs but for cups. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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