Re:Printing to PDF from Client Access -need to change font

>At 22:43 12/21/1998 -0800, Bob Larkin wrote:
>>The problem is probably in the font. Most Windoze fonts are proportional. This
>>means that a l takes less space than an m.
>
>I was under the impression that even with a variable spaced font, numerals
>all take up the same amount of (x axis) space because they typically need
>to be column aligned. Is this not true?
>Pete Hall
>peteh@inwave.com
>http://www.inwave.com/~peteh


Numerals may or may not align in a proportionally spaced font. -=I=- was under the impression that they did -not- align! (: It all depends on who designed the font, and what uses they had in mind for it. Almost every computer has a fixed pitch font available for those times when you need to align cheap graphics:



|================================================================|
|//$\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//$\\|
|(100)================| FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE |==============(100)|
|\\$// ~ '------========--------' \\$//|
|<< / /$\ // ____ \\ \ >>|
|>>| 12 //L\\ // ///..) \\ L38036133B 12 |<<|
|<<| \\ // || <|| >\ || |>>|
|>>| \$/ || $$ --/ || One Hundred |<<|
|<<| L38036133B *\\ |\_/ //* series |>>|
|>>| 12 *\\/___\_//* 1989 |<<|
|<<\ Treasurer ______/Franklin\________ Secretary 12 />>|
|//$\ ~|UNITED STATES OF AMERICA|~ /$\\|
|(100)================= ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ===============(100)|
|\\$//\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\$//|
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--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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