| October 2005 Newsletter | |
 |
Print Wizard's Auto-Fit Logic |
It’s hard to pick out just one great feature in Print Wizard. However, one of the major selling points for printing through Print Wizard is its “auto-fit” logic. When the Print Wizard engine receives a job, it first analyzes the first 800+ lines and figures out the standard format of the print job, including any fonts used, the paper size, the lines per page and more. It then tries to figure out if this information will scale properly to fit on the currently selected printer’s paper size and within the printers printable area. If you have not included any PWML (Print Wizard Markup Language) or PCL information in the print job stream, Print Wizard will attempt to “best-guess” the page size intended, the lines-per-page and the characters per inch, all based on the printers current settings, taking into account non-printable area for that printer, what fonts are resident in the printer and what paper size is loaded in the current bin.With all this information in place, Print Wizard scales your print job, automatically, to fit. Amazing! |
|
Background Images and Watermarks in AnzioWin |
|
AnzioWin version 15 is unique from other emulation packages in that it allows for background images and watermarks to be displayed behind the terminal emulation text. Through the File menu and the Background Image dialog, you can select a file to be the background image. Also from this dialog, you can select whether that images is “tiled” or as a “watermark”, as well as adjust the images brightness and contrast. But going beyond this is what you can do with scripting and macros and sending host commands. Imagine throwing up a perfectly sized image from a host script in exact locations on the screen. This has many benefits, such as for Realtor Multiple Listings, architect’s plan drawing, optical lab spec sheets and more. No longer do you need to have the user bring up another application to look at a needed image. Your application can do this. The advantage of AnzioWin is it can fetch that image from anywhere, giving local terminal emulation an option to show locally stored or remotely stored graphic images. Check out our support pages at our web site as well as the AnzioWin documentation. |
|
Printing Background Images |
|
A very common question is “Will my bitmap background in AnzioWin print?” AnzioWin allows you to have bitmap background on the screen as one of three types, tiled, watermark or exactly placed by a script or command. So what actually prints when someone does a print screen? “Tiled” and “watermark’ backgrounds do not print with the screen data when a screen print is done. However if the bitmap background were placed on the screen in a pixel or exact location by a host command, a script or a macro, then AnzioWin would include the bitmap in the screen print. If there were any adjustments to the bitmap done, such as size or resolution or color, these wold be reflected in the print out.See the AnzioWin documentation for more information. |
|
 |
Debugging Printing in AnzioWin |
In AnzioWin version 15.0 or later, we have added extensive debugging including to the print processing done by AnzioWin. From the General tab on the Advanced Options dialog under the Edit menu, you can turn on and off “Debug printing”. When this is on, information regarding any passthrough print job will be displayed. This includes information on what printer it is destined for, the print type, any print “init” file being used and information pertaining to what AnzioWin will do with that print job. If you are running with Print Wizard turned on you will additional information pertaining to the passthrough print job, including:
This information can be critical in determining what didn’t work during a passthrough print job, why data didn’t line up and why garbage may have printed. This is always a good place to start when troubleshooting a passthrough print job coming through AnzioWin to the printer. |
|
