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Do you mean the attributes of the printer's built-in fonts, if it even has any? I'm not aware of any way to do this. Fortunately (in the sense that it's fortunate that I know it's possible), most printers can print bitmaps, so your task is "simply" to generate something that can be rasterized. If you know your printers all speak PostScript or some variant, you can generate that.

Again, unfortunately, few consumer-level printers speak PostScript. You could use GhostScript to translate PostScript into the appropriate printer commands, though. It's still a harder problem than you suppose, mostly because I'm not sure there's any one way to get any of the information you want, much less all of it.

By the way, it's either Perl or perl, but never PERL.


In reply to Re: Printer Format Attributes by chromatic
in thread Printer Format Attributes by UncleSteve

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