Creating a New Printer Code Conversion Table

Printer conversion tables are used to convert printing instructions to the TIS 988-2553 format, which is the WTT 2.0 default printing format. The code conversion tables listed in the WTT 2.0 standard are included with Solaris 7 TLE.

If the printer you are using does not use the TIS 988-2553 format, and cannot use any of the code conversion tables, then you need to create a custom conversion table. This section explains how to create a new printer code conversion table.

Conversion Table Syntax

The following is an example of a code conversion file:

-- -- -- -- TN -- !  TAC11x10.COD     16 AUG 1991 
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F  
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F  
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F  
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F  
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F  
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F  
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F  
70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F  
3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F  
3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F  
3F A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF  
B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD BE BF  
C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF  
D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA 3F 3F 3F 3F DF  
E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF  
F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB 3F 3F 3F FF 
! End of TAC11x10.COD

The first line of a code conversion table uses the following syntax:

CC LG UM EX TN SP     !  comment

If one of the two-character fields is not used, it must be replaced with two dashes (--). The fields in the first line are explained in Table D-4.

The middle of the conversion file contains 16 lines of 16 codes, a total of 256 codes. These codes are the replacement for the TIS 988-2553. The TIS988-2553 code is shown below:

-- -- -- -- TN -- !  TAC11x11.COD     16 AUG 1991 
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F  
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F  
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F  
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F  
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F  
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F  
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F  
70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F  
80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F  
90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F  
A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF  
B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD BE BF  
C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF  
D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF  
E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF  
F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF 
! End of TAC11x10.COD  Note: There is no conversion in this table

The last line of the conversion table is another comment, proceeded by the "!" symbol. The WTT 2.0 conversion tables end with the line:

! END OF filename