Channel Skip Emulation

Channel skip emulation is a variant of line printer emulation. It tells the document to read the data stream one line at a time, and to treat the first character of each line as a code that indicates how to position the line of data in the data page buffer.

By default, in channel skip emulation, the integer 1 signals the end of a data page. You can change this default when you set up the emulation.

Note that if a given value is used for multiple channels, the result may be different at design time, or when the document is previewed or printed.

Also note that Split on FormFeed (FF) is not supported with the Channel Skip emulation in Optimized PostScript Stream mode or when printing using a Windows driver.

Channel skip emulation options

• Skip page: Enter the code used within the data to mark the beginning of each page (the number 1 in standard channel skip emulation). Note that if the standard code is used within the data as the skip page code, it is likely that the other codes are also standard, and that you only need to make minor changes to the other codes, if any.
• No line feed: Enter the code used within the data to indicate that the next line feed character should be ignored. This causes the next line to print over the current line, and is a technique impact printers use to print a line, or elements of a line, in bold or with underlining.
• Skip [x] lines: Enter the code used within the data to indicate that the corresponding number of lines must be skipped.
• Char and Skip to line: Enter the code used within the data to mark a jump to a different line in the Char box, and enter the corresponding line number in the Skip to line box.
• Char and Go to column: Enter the code used within the data to mark a jump to a different column in the Char box, and enter the corresponding column number in the Go to column box.