Re: SCS to PDF via OVRPRTF

In the Good Old Days, overprinting the same character on top of itself did result in the character printing BOLD. But that only works with physical printing (ie paper, ribbon, and a print chain or band). Overprinting to a laser printer doesn't-- IMHO, because the dots that make up the character are printed precisely in the same position on the page each time.

I think you'll need to find out how to issue a "BOLD" attribute to the resulting text.

--Paul E Musselman
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At 5:29 PM -0800 1/7/15, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Working on a report that originates as a whole bunch of O-specs in an RPG program, and gets converted to a PDF via an OVRPRTF.

Now of course, I already know that overprinting underscores on a line creates underscores.

I was under the impression that overprinting a line on itself creates bolding. But in the resulting PDF, while the bolding might just barely show up on the screen, it doesn't show up at all if I print the document.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or was I simply wrong about there being a way to get bold in a report that starts out as SCS?

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JHHL