Windows printing - yet again...

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Ok, this is a totally psycho idea, but that has never stopped me in the
past...

I could create a table that charts the proportional adjustment needed
for characters of various fonts.

For example, an 11-point arial, as it appears on screen, might need to
be adjusted to 10 point for printing.

Might be a wee bit of work to figure out the right adjustments for every
font, but it might also be worth it.

Unless a more practical solution presents itself.

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Lynch,
Jonathan
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:28 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: RE: Windows printing - yet again...

Well, I do that.

However, if I want it to have a really precise layout, then that won't
quite work.

I created this printing script (described as a total hack by a friend at
work) that replaces every single letter in a field with a field
containing that letter (and a couple blank spaces after it, to help with
adjusting for sub and superscript). It's a monster, but it works. It
forces every letter to stay in its exact spot when printing.

However - if there is sufficient variation in the font between the
screen and printing size, then the letters can wind up overlapping with
this approach.

Other programs on Windows do not have this problem - so there is
something they are doing that Rev is not doing. If I understood what was
missing, I might be able to come up with some other 'total hack' that
works on all occasions.

Could this be accomplished by creating a handler that converts a "page"
(in this case a group in the size of a single sheet of paper) to a
postscript file, then printing the postscript file? I know about as much
about postscript as I do about hieroglyphics, but I'd be willing to give
it a try if I thought it could work.

Maybe Windows just doesn't realize that it is supposed to regard a true
type font as a true type font unless it is told to do so?


-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chipp
Walters
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:10 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Windows printing - yet again...

Jonathan,

I don't know the answer, but if you're having the problem of your text 
being 'trimmed' at the end of a line, you could try setting your field 
margins to something much higher...like 10.

best,

Chipp

Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
> What is the basic underlying reason why a true-type font, when printed
> from Rev, might not be sized correctly - and yet it will be sized
> correctly when printed from most Windows applications?

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