Re: Printing to HP - Trouble changing point-size in courier font

[Jon Alsager <JAlsager@ISIF.STATE.ID.US>]

Yuri --

Yes, the formula does seem appropriate

While I'm still fairly new at SQR, my suspicion is that when pitch is
defined, it holds that value until its changed.  In nearly all of the
programs that I have worked on where the alter-printer command is used, both
the font and pitch/point-size are stated each time.  So I have not
necessarily seen what you are experiencing.  But it does not suprise me.

Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Hunter [mailto:lakef250@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:44 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: Printing to HP - Trouble changing point-size in courier font



Thanks, Jon.  That did the trick.

However, instead of replacing point-size, I added pitch as follows:


    alter-printer font=3 point-size=8 pitch=15

I found a calculation for pitch on the archive as follows:
120/pitch=point-size

Does this seem appropriate?

FINAL QUESTION:  Adding the pitch to just the one alter-printer stmt above
affected all other 26 alter-printer stmts that changed font to courier.  The
pitch was not impacted for other alter-printer stmts where font was
Times-Roman but the alter-printer stmts that changed font to Courier were
changed as if the pitch parm were used.  Why would only adding pitch parm to
the one alter-printer stmt affect all the other courier stmts?  Is this
expected?

>From: Jon Alsager

>Reply-To: sqr-users@list.iex.net
>To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
>Subject: Re: Printing to HP - Trouble changing point-size in courier font
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:15:22 -0600
>
>Try specifiying pitch instead of point-size for Courier.
>
>HTH
>
>Jon
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yuri Hunter [mailto:lakef250@HOTMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:48 PM
>To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
>Subject: Printing to HP - Trouble changing point-size in courier font
>
>
>Greetings to the group -
>
>I've written an SQR report that uses Times-Roman font (different sizes with

>some bold and limited use of boxes). There are some header and footer
>fields (e.g., Contact Person) that I pass as parameters to the program that

>I want to print in Courier to make it plain what fields have been entered
by
>appearing they were "typed in."
>
>The problem I'm having is that when I issue the alter-printer command to
>change the font to Courier 10-pt, the font changes from Times-Roman to
>Courier, but the size is super small (like 5-pt or less!).
>
>I can't make the Courier point-size increase in size on the report output
no
>matter what value I specify in the alter-printer point-size parameter. A
>sample of my code follows:
>
>#include 'setenv.sqc'
>
>begin-setup
> #include 'setup02b.sqc' !Printer specifications for HPLASERJET
>end-setup
>
>begin-footing
> alter-printer font=5 point-size=6
> print 'Contact Person:' (,90) bold
> alter-printer font=3 point-size=10
> print $name (,107) underline
>end-footing
>
>
>Platform information:
>
> $sqr-platform : WINDOWS-NT
> $sqr-ver : SQR/4.3.4/PC/Windows NT 4.0/Oracle 7.3.4/Jun 03 1999
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any assistance!
>
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