Printing 132 Columns

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3 total messages Started by Colin B Maharaj Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:36

#1691

Author: Colin B Maharaj
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:36

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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?.

By the way I am using the normal windows printer,
in that I am not using direct printer commands
like in the old day.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Colin!

Re: Printing 132 Columns

#1692

Author: Giuliano
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:32

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Il Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:36:41 -0400, Colin B Maharaj <noreply@myhost.com> ha scritto:

[snip]
>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?.
>
>By the way I am using the normal windows printer,
>in that I am not using direct printer commands
>like in the old day.
[snip]

Hi Colin,

    I suggest you to use a fixed size font, like Courier new,
Fixed Sys, and so on... 

As it's possible to squeeze the font horizontally in order to adapt
the horizontal size, IIRC, before calling, e.g., the API CreateFontIndirect,
you can try to assign to the lfWidth member of LOGFONT structure a appropriate 
value to fit the text for 132 cols.

Regards

Giuliano

Re: Printing 132 Columns

#1693

Author: 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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