Re: Print with italic font

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Fredrik,

> I have a very short question which I hope someone can give me a quick
> answer to:
> How do I do to print text in my reports with italics.
> I use SQRW version 4.0 and print on a Postscript printer.

Unfortunately, SQR doesn't support italics directly.

If you can get away with it, consider using UNDERLINE instead.

If you _must_ have italics, and you're willing to embed some postscript
in the report, then you'll need to do something like this:

   print 'Here is some normal text' (1,1)

   print-direct printer=ps 'gsave'
   print-direct printer=ps '/Courier-Oblique findfont 12 scalefont setfont'
   print 'Here is some italic text' (2,1)
   print-direct printer=ps 'grestore'

   print 'Here is some normal text' (3,1)

Note that this will show as plain text in the SQR Viewer, but
will show correctly on the printer.

Hope this helps.

Ray
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