Can I print characters in my DOS Code Page ?

Can I print characters in my DOS Code Page ?

Printfil can print any character which is mapped into the choosen Windows font, including latin characters (A,B,C, ...) accented letters (à, è, é, ..., used in specific languages), box-drawing chacters (╔, ═, ..., used to "draw" frames and boxes in character mode), symbols (Æ, Ø, €, ...) and even special glyphs included in specialized fonts (barcodes for example).

There is no need to "Select a Code Page" in Printfil because the Windows fonts already provides all what's needed to print any character produced by your source application. You can easily see this by choosing, for example, "Symbol" instead of "Courier New" in the Printfil's configuration dialog.

In addition, Printfil provides an automatic OEM (DOS) vs. Ansi (Windows) conversion of the characters, so that an unsupported DOS OEM character in the currently selected font can be automatically rendered by using the most similar one in the currently selected Windows Ansi codepage.

So, for printing non-latin characters with Printfil you only need a standard True Type Windows font which includes them, in the Ansi or OEM translation.

In most cases, the standard Windows "Courier New" font can render all the glyps you need. The following table contains some sample fonts which can be selected for specific languages and/or purposes. These are only some examples however.

Please note that the table above is not complete and contains only some examples. You might use other Windows fonts for the same languages, and different fonts for other languages and/or purposes.

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