I got some quiet time last night and I went through the code in more detail. They actually drew the boxes with lines. They indented the sides to get the box ends to look nice. That originally made me think it was a box-within-box. It is a little inefficient because it generates lots of code to...
I spent part of my day looking at the output file (from the out-of-business SW pkg) before it is sent to the HP printer.
All of the existing code was written in PCL. There is no GL/2 code. They did the black box with a white box laid inside of it to achieve the desired line thickness.
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Jim, thanks for your reply. You certainly provided me with two alternatives. One that I had thought of, but dismissed as probably not workable.
I am already using both PCL and GL/2, but not as interactively as you have suggested. I do like your suggestion of positioning the X,Y coord in PCL...
I am trying to write a electronic forms package to replace one that has gone out of business. It will produce checks, invoices, purchase order, etc forms. We print mainly on HP 2000, 4000, 5000, 8000, 9000 series printers.
I have read the PCL 5 Printer Language Tech Ref manuals (Part I & II)...
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