Hi Steve:
The Duxbury philosophy is to try to accompadate our customers and their needs.
The Juliet has a command that turns off the ability to recognize or act on
escape sequences.
If you were to use that mode, and DBT always started an embossing operation
with an escape sequence, you would get garbled characters at the start of
each embossing job.
One solution is to force the customer to always turn on the recognition of
escape sequences. Our approach is to let the user say whether they want
these sequences sent out at the beginning of each embossing job. That way,
if you do have a real reason why you want to avoid escape sequences, you
can keep your embosser set up the way you like.
But as I stated in another e-mail, if you are doing brailler graphics, this
is no longer a choice. Escape sequences have to be sent.
I do not think that if you do not want escape sequences, this is an
invitation for trouble. This is a new aspect of DBT 10.5. All previous
versions of DBT asked the user to make sure that the embosser met the
conditions needed to make DBT work. Only DBT 10.5 uses escape sequences to
control page and cell dimensions, dot spacing, margins, word wrap, and
other critical parameters.
So if you indicate you do not want escape sequences, you are really making
DBT 10.5 act more like DBT 10.4.
-- David Holladay
At 03:09 PM 9/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>David,
>
>I wonder why DBTW even has that checkbox. Shouldn't it just be part of the
>data gathered for each embosser? If you've turned off escape code
>processing in your embosser, then you'll have problems anyway. If you
>haven't, you may not even understand why the checkbox is there.
>
>Steve
>
>On Tuesday 9/14/04 13:30 David Holladay wrote:
>
>>Well, here is a bit of sloppy coding in DBT 10.5
>>
>>For DBT to attempt to control your embosser page size, etc. you need to
>>check "accept escape codes".
>>
>>When trying to use graphics, DBT just assumes you have are ready to accept
>>them, and sends them out, since that is the only way to get graphics
printed.
>>
>>That use has its parallel with version 10.4, where graphics commands were
>>sent out without asking the user if that would work.
>>
>>In many ways, this is a theoretical isssue, since Enabling wisely sets the
>>default at accepting escape codes, and you would have to enter a command to
>>shut off their interpretation.
>>
>>If anyone is having problems producing graphics with DBT 10.5, please
>>e-mail me so I can figure out what is happening.
>>
>>-- David Holladay
>>
>>
>>
>>At 12:20 PM 9/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>> >On Tuesday 9/14/04 07:44 George Bell wrote:
>> >>If you insert a picture into a DBT document, it will take
>> >>care of the graphics mode for you.
>> >George, do you also have to check the box that tells DBTW that the
embosser
>> >will process escape codes?
>> >
>> >Steve
>> >
>> >
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