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First post, by Guest

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Hi,

I want to use Dos-Box not with a game but an old dos-application, works fine but I need a printer, is there any possibility to use a printer ( perhabs pipe the output in a file and open it in the editor an print is under dos ). Or any other idea.

Thanks a lot for your info

Bye
Sven 😉

Reply 1 of 5, by MiniMax

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Yes, it is possible. DOSBox will produce PNG-dump (I think) resembling the printed page. I think you can also get it to produce Postscript.

I am not sure how it works, though or where to find the documentation...

Last edited by MiniMax on 2005-01-21, 16:13. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Qbix

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well what minimax is refering to are screenshots.

really printing is not supported.

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Reply 3 of 5, by MiniMax

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Qbix wrote:

well what minimax is refering to are screenshots.

really printing is not supported.

Huh? So the virtual printer patch never made it into the official version?

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Reply 5 of 5, by Guest

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Hi,

thanks for your answers.

I read through the thread and downloaded all the files ( fonts, dosbox.printer and cygpng12 ) all these files I put in my dosbox-folder but how can I use this feature??

I use dosbox 0.63 and copy this modified dosbox6.1 - file in this folder of 0.63 the programm runs fine which I want to use but how can I configure the printer-settings for example the issue printing as ps-file.

But realy great would it be to print directly to my Windows Printer ( Epson Stylus ColorC82 ).

Thanks for your help

Bye
Sven 😉

As mirekluza mentioned, the printing - patch would be very nice implemented in the official version.