Re: Proportional Fonts and wrapping

[Manoj Gurjar <mgurjar@HOTMAIL.COM>]

David,

I face exactly same problem for print NOTEs in Forms like
PO, Sales Order etc..

I am going crazy, as lower case and upper case characters
takes different spaces when printed.

I am planning to either convert all NOTES to uppercase,
and print. So that atleast I can make decision from where
to wrap (right margin).

Regards,
Manoj



>From: "Haas, David" <dhaas@CASECORP.COM>
>Reply-To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>
>Subject: Proportional Fonts and wrapping
>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:21:00 -0600
>
>This problem has plagued our project from the start of using SQR.
>
>We are using all proportional font type printing in our price lists.  The
>way we have it set up, all of the letters that are to be used in the text
>of
>the price list have a width estimate mapped to it.  For example, the letter
>'H' would have a width of 50 attached to it, the letter 'h' would have 35
>and the letter 'I' would have 15.  We then accumulate these widths to know
>when we reach the right hand margin amount and then wrap to the next line.
>
>The problem we are encountering is that these 'estimates' of the character
>widths are causing the right side of the text to be cut off.  Say for
>example we have the following paragraphs:
>
>*****************************************************
>I am trying to get some sort of solution to
>fix the problem that I am currently taking
>a look at.
>
>I AM TRYING TO GET SOME SORT OF SOLUTION
>TO FIX THE PROBLEM THAT I AM CURRENTLY
>TAKING A LOOK AT.
>*****************************************************
>
>The first paragraph prints fine.  But then the second paragraph with all
>caps gets cut off on the right side (i.e. the words/partial words 'OF
>SOLUTION' and 'URRENTLY' will go past the right margin and can't be seen.
>It appears that the widths for the uppercase may be a little smaller than
>they should be.  Generally speaking, it appears that all of the estimations
>are off (either above or below) for all characters, which is causing the
>problem above.
>
>One solution I tried was to decrease the right hand margin amount so that
>the 'all caps' text fit on the page.  It worked, but then the other
>paragraph wraps at the middle of the page, which clients found
>unacceptable.
>This causes the script to be extremely data dependent.  I make a change in
>the script to fix one wrapping problem which then causes another.  This
>happens all the time and clients are restless.
>
>There are two options I can think of that will either minimize this problem
>or do away with it all together.  One is to re-write the code to
>accommodate
>a fixed font similar to the proportional font that we now use, Arial.
>However, I am having a problem finding a fixed font even close to this, and
>the re-write effort would be huge (to be done sometime in the future).  The
>other is to reestimate the widths which in itself would be time consuming
>unless someone had some sort of table that maps actual character widths to
>characters.
>
>I hope that someone has had this same problem and has fixed it because I'm
>at a crossroad.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>David A. Haas
>Case Corporation
>

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