Font identifying from raster

[shermin]

Hi,

Inorder to do magnetic encoding in a simple way,can i use raw printing method.If i enable that in mime.types and .convs file ,i will get raw data as such in my backend right?So I can combine these data with the magnetic encoding command to the printer so that it will be printed in magnetic stripe as it is.

Is this method work for my requirements????

2)If not then we are confused about getting cupsString value to be get in header.How will we get those values filled with the data that we enter in a text file.I searched a lot on this but didnt get a  link :(

As you said "data in a text file with some header" cracking my head.How it is???

Shermin



> >
> >> shermin wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am writing the code for Magnetic encoding for my smart card
> >>> printers.I am using a special font for this.I thought of identifying
> >>> the special font for magnetic encoding so that whenever that font is
> >>> found in a job file ,it should be gone for magnetic encoding rather
> >>> than printing blankly.So is there any method to identify the font
> >>> from the raster data.If not ,how can be this achieved.???
> >> You can't recover the text from raster data.
> >>
> >> That said, I'd use a page attribute (cupsString1 through
> >> cupsString16 are available, each supporting up to 63 characters + nul)
> >> to pass the string(s) for the mag strip.  A custom option can be used
> >> to set the value, and/or you can write a small application that
> >> creates a PostScript file containing the image for the card and the
> >> string(s) for the mag strip.
> >>
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