Can Report Manager print in dot matrix printers in Linux as fast as in Windows?
Windows provides drivers and those drivers provide printer specific fonts, so the Windows GDI can merge graphics and texts, the printer driver does the real hard work of printing, Report Manager only search for the best suited font (a printer font) in Windows font list, select it and call Windows specific API to draw the text (this is the behaviour for use device fonts option) For Linux, Report Manager uses the Kylix graphic engine that uses the Qt graphic engine, the Qt graphics engine writes output usually in postcript and then the printer filter transform it to a understandable language to the printer (usually this work is done by ghostcript). So you can use a printer filter to convert postcript to text or better is the use of dot matrix and pos device feature, see documentation, the engine can generate text output with printer escape codes in Windows and Linux. See documentation.
