Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following: Define printer types Register a printer as a specific printer type Assign a print style and printer driver to a printer type Understand Pasta printing concepts Create a custom print style and printer driver Create a custom SRW driver
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Formatting Information
Document formatting (height, width)
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Printer type describes printer. Printer style formats document. Printer driver formats output. SRW driver formats text.
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Printer types
Printers
Reset Commands
Printer drivers
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Defining Printers
Using predefined components Using custom components
Define new type (if needed) Define new style (if needed) Define new driver Register printer as predefined type Register printer as new type
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The Pasta utility Converts text report files to Postscript Enables printing of custom Postscript reports from Oracle Handles multi-lingual text using UTF8 Has a simpler setup procedure - Printer Tupe, Printer Driver, and SRW driver files are provided
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PrintForms
PrintForms allows you to create your own background template for a report and use it at the time of printing either as a background image or as a standard form.
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Using PrintForms
There are two phases to using PrintForms: Create the PrintForm Deploy the Print form to Oracle Applications
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Print style
Printer driver
SRW driver
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Printer driver
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Operating system
Concurrent manager
Arguments
Custom program*
Operating system
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Concurrent manager
Arguments
Custom program*
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Command Method
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Temporary File
Temporary File
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between pages control(L) return linefeed control(J) esc[1m esc[0m esc[4m esc[0m
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Run report
Check output
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Summary
You should now be able to do the following: Register new printers Define new printer types Create a custom print style Create a custom printer driver Assign a print style and printer driver to a printer type Create a custom SRW driver for formatting text and page breaks
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