I haven’t looked at the printer driver interface on various different operating systens, but I imagine programmatically you don’t write ACSII text directly to it, the way you would with file io calls. Though on Linux you have “lpr” where you can pipe text directly to the command. It’s possible a printer could natively support this, but clearly it would be a different interface to render anything more complex than ascii text.
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tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours agoWhen you are saving it as a .txt file, you are printing it as a .txt file, the computer sees no difference.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 hours ago
Not how printing as pdf works but I appreciate the effort
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I’m sorry but I am the head of printing operations at work and I can assure you, that is exactly how computers work.
mech@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Can we get a second opinion from the head of saving operations?
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
That department was cut for financial reasons.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
Oh! Apologies sir. I didn’t realize you were the one casting the printer summoning seances from that side of the veil. You know if you ever need support you can draw out the four runes on the back of the book.