Re: SCS to PDF via OVRPRTF

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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?
>
> --
> JHHL