@328gts

yes it was no bad :)

@328gts

Good time to ask that :)

Yesterday I got my internet back.. lightning had hit the phones lines where it took out my adsl model and phone lines.

So I have been without internet for 14 days now :/

I have put the dot4 driver on hold most of the time since last update.

I have had coded a little on it bu not much, when I look in my calender I can see there is some free time sunday.. I hope to do an update there.

RWO

@328gts

sorry for the long delay, I have been busy with other projects.

Plus there was a small hollyday too, I hope to find some time to make a new version for you soon.

RWO

@trixie

Can you manage with a fast reboot?

for the debugbuffer should suvive that.

just open a shell and type

DumpDebugBuffer ram:dot4.txt

and send the text file in ram to me.

RWO

@alfkil

Well this shows the my driver is working.. it manages too send of data to the printer.

And that was the hole point of the driver, as its just a transport layer.

The problem you have is the printer do not understand the data send, it looks like postscript (not sure).

To test driver driver you should really first open a small text file in multiview and then select Print.. I expect that would work just fine.

When it comes too graphics it gets tricky.. i'm not really an expert setting up printers. Maybe some of the other nice users around here can help you with that.

RWO

I really need the Debug Buffer to fix this, for I can print with out any problems..

So please send it to ac@rebels.com

RWO

@328gts

could you send me the debug info, capture it with dumpdebugbuffer

RWO

@328gts

I uploaded another version, I hope this version works better.

RWO

@Tuxedo

Ya I like a version too that has SVG support added.

RWO

@ZeroG

wow has it really been 3 years since I did those.

RWO

@328gts

I looked at the Logs you send me, and the driver never recives any data too print.

so next time you try and print any thing only use Multiview or a shell

in the shell you can just do this 'echo "123" >prt:'

if that works we have to look at what you are doing since it fails.

RWO

@328gts

forgot to say thanks for the log.

@Chris

Also thanks for the log, I can see the printer send me one or two commands that I have not implemented yet.

To know which one, I also need the serial output from this driver.

RWO

@328gts

Hmm I looked at the log you send me, the driver has not reistred any data too send, weird.

The driver also sends out debug output too serial, I would like too have that too, if you could send me that.

If you don't have another computer to capture that, you can use the c:DumpDebugBuffer too retrieve the data.

I think you just have to do a c:DumpDebugBuffer ram:dot4.serialtxt

RWO

I wrote the dot4 code.

I added some code to retieve more data if you run out, but this code is unused as my printer do not use this.

could you please test the new version for me.

RWO

The USB Printer protocol, the normal or ieee1284.4 is only a way to transport data.

So the driver do not care if the Printer is a PostScript / PCL / plain ASCII driver or some custom setup, it just takes data and send it over usb too the printer.

about my current progress. I have been redesigning the DOT4 work flow and recoded at lot of subfunctions, this is too make a flexiable dot4 driver. Some of the log reports I got back showed some problems.

I hope too have a new test driver up and running soon.

RWO

@xeron

even people with silly hats? :D

RWO

@hotrod

thanks, I need to reorganize how the driver works before printing can occure.

About the crash not sure why that happens, still looking into it.

I don't need anymore reports or logs. Thanks for those I got so far.

RWO

@ZeroG

Okay I dident know that, always thourgth they used some kind of custom format.

But when I go into Printer Prefs I only got the choice too select File, Generic and Post Script.. so no default PCL driver.

I have a PCL 10 Brother Printer and I have offen wondered if I should Rip the PCL driver in AmiPDF and make a Amiga Driver out of it.

For then every Amiga Program can print graphics.

but never got around too that.

RWO

@328gts

hmmm I can't say why it would do that.

But lets see whats happens when I make some improvements, if it still crashes i'll have to figure it out.

RWO

@Chris

AmigaOS4's printer System do no have a PCL driver, only plain and PostScript.

AmiPDF has its own PCL driver build in, so that is able to send PCL data.

I have no idea about youre printer.

btw thanks for the for the log now I can see whats is going on.. youre printer works a little diffrent than mine.

RWO