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Re: Printing 132 Columns

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:14
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Colin B Maharaj wrote:

>Hi all, I want to print a text file to
>a printer but in the legacy 'wide' format
>if you know what I mean. 132 columns

>So now it has to kinda compress horizontally.
>What is the best font for this? How do I
>init this or setup the printer canvas?.

I gave code for this some time ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp/browse_thread/thread/16a3d6739a7f524c/bb65e51f3b02dfba
http://tinyurl.com/2r7ujl

For wide reports, I prefer to switch to landscape mode before applying that code.
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