[vwnc] VW Fonts on screen vs printer...

Hi..

I've been trying out Simberon reports on VW7.6 and it works fine except
for one area
that is a bit frustrating.. The internal report viewer show the layout I
expect but when
I print it to a postscript file, the font sizes are different than what
the screen had and
things are clipped on the right..  One of the guys that maintains
Simberon indicated that
he thought there was a detailed writeup somewhere that gave directions
on making VW's
screen & print output look very close.. I looked through the archives
but didn't find
anything..

Any ideas?
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Rick

I recall looking into this and found out that the font widths
for windows fonts are integers while for Postscript they are
either floats or scaled. For most things it does not matter
but occasionally you get enough roundoff error so it matters.

Terry
 
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Subject: [vwnc] VW Fonts on screen vs printer...

Hi..

I've been trying out Simberon reports on VW7.6 and it works fine except
for one area
that is a bit frustrating.. The internal report viewer show the layout I
expect but when
I print it to a postscript file, the font sizes are different than what
the screen had and
things are clipped on the right..  One of the guys that maintains
Simberon indicated that
he thought there was a detailed writeup somewhere that gave directions
on making VW's
screen & print output look very close.. I looked through the archives
but didn't find
anything..

Any ideas?
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Terry Raymond wrote:
> Rick
>
> I recall looking into this and found out that the font widths
> for windows fonts are integers while for Postscript they are
> either floats or scaled. For most things it does not matter
> but occasionally you get enough roundoff error so it matters.
>  
Thanks.. For now I've resorted to playing the tailoring game by printing
to postscript
and viewing the results, adjusting the code and redoing again to just
get my output
going.. For the most part I had to reduce font sizes down to 12 from 16
(16 looked
OK on my OSX installation but were being clipped when printed as
Postscript..

Anyway, I've gotten around my sticking point for now..


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