Re: [sqr-users] converting .ttf font to .fnt to printsignature on paychecks

["Jamie Harris" <JHarris@frederick.edu>]

Stephen,

When we've had to do this we had a similar issue - we used to get HP to make a 
font DIMM for our check printer, but since the printer is so old they won't do 
that anymore.  So our options were to get a new printer or find another way.  

As you can gather, it's quite easy to use the .ttf version you have in anything 
BUT the SQR language.   We never really found a good way to do that, so it was 
cheaper just to go here:
http://www.elfring.com/signatur.htm   Get the free trial version and make sure 
it works for you before you buy anything - if you can get "Your signature here" 
to appear on a check, then the same code will work with your real font. :)

You have to get the PCL font (for DOS systems).  Then, in the SQR we just print 
a certain escape code sequence and we're in business:

 encode '<27>(1XABC<27>(3@' into $SigFont
 print $SigFont (,)

We run checks to a .LIS file, then have a batch file that uses FLOAD (or 
something like it) to load the soft font into the printer and print the .LIS 
file.   That sounds like exactly what you're doing so you should be good to go.


The downside here is that when we change these signatures we have to create a 
new TTF (for Crystal Reports, etc.) and a new PCL font for SQR to use.  I'd 
love to be able to just use the .ttf directly in the SQR!


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James Harris
Enterprise Application Analyst/Programmer
Information Technology Division
Frederick Community College 

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>>> "Stephen Andrew Wowelko" <sawowelk@syr.edu> 5/10/2007 9:22 AM >>>
Wondering if anyone on the list can point me in the right direction...

We had a personnel change and need to get a new signature to print on
our paychecks in PeopleSoft.  I have created a .ttf font with the new
signature imbedded in a character cell (like before).

In the past we have used the FLOAD utility to load the signature to the
printer before printing the checks.  The FLOAD utility loads the .fnt
version of the font to the printer.
 
We first did this process 10 years ago and no one can remember how to
create the .fnt font from the .ttf font. 
 
Any thoughts or hints on this?

Thanks,
Stephen Wowelko
ITS - Information Systems
Syracuse University

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