Re: Character spacing and Postscript

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Gary,

I'm not sure if this helps, but there is a file in $SQRDIR called
postscri.str.  It defines the stuff that you find in the
postscript header.  If you want to change this, I suppose you
could do so (at your own risk, of course).

I can't think of an easy way to alter the "tracking" in Postscript
without creating your own font from an existing source-font.
You might be able to simulate the tracking idea by defining an
appropriate CHAR-WIDTH in DECLARE-LAYOUT and placing each character
yourself, one-by-one.

Hope this helps.

Ray

> Hello,
>
> I am creating a report using proprtional fonts such as Helevetica-Light.
> When I view my report the characters are nicely spaced out and if I
> print to the windows printer the output is the same as in the viewer.
> If I print to PCL then again the output is fine.
>
> When I print to Postscript thought the characters are much less evenly
> spaced.  Is this anything to do with SQR? or is it a printer issue?
>
> A few extra quick questions if anyone knows the answers to these:
>
> 1) When SQR produces a Postscript file it adds its own procedures.  What
> version of Postscript is this, is it possible to alter the postscript
> and does Sqribe support Postscript well (i.e. will it support the new
> version of Postscript).
>
> 2) Has SQR any facility to alter the space between characters.  I think
> in typographical language this is referred to as 'tracking'.  Say I want
> to double space characters in parts of a report, can this be done?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Gary
>
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