Re: Fonts & RPG

[Anton Gombkötö <Gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You're welcome, it's just a piece of info and we'll see how valuable it
becomes (0.02 Euro :-)...

Sorry, i mixed something up, you seem to define everything straight in the
DDS, no escape sequences or other ascii rubbish in your data stream.

Maybe you can, but also with quite an effort, use some of the "compilers"
(whatever) habits to your advantage. I assume that you have the fields to be
printed in a single record, like

A    RECORD
A     FIELD1
A     FIELD2    and so on.

And when you print this, all in Arial, Field2 starts drifting around. This
is possibly due to relative positioning to Field2. Maybe it's better when
you separate it to more records, all printed in the same line.

A    RECORD1
A     FIELD1
A    RECORD2
A     FIELD2

(no line feed after record1, of course)

This might force an absolute positioning, and this might be OK, when the
blanks are printed in a fixed space font. Where did you set Arial? With DDS
keyword or "outside", in the printer file attributes? If it's the DDS
keyword, and the outside is still 11=Courier, this might work. (I know this
from doing some studies on SCS data stream in order to write a converter to
AFPDS.)

Maybe this helps, or was at least of some interest,
best regards

Anton Gombkötö

----- Original Message -----
From: <Phil.Conibere@tgb.toyota.co.uk>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Fonts & RPG


>
>
> Yes, you are absolutely correct Anton - I hadn't noticed that at all, wood
for
> the trees and all that. Thanks!
>
> However... can't quite see how I'm going to change the font in the middle
of a
> field in the DDS.. the plot thickens.....
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>
>
>
>
> Anton Gombk


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ötö <Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com> on 13/04/2000 13:19:16

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>
> Are you sure that the "1" and the "8" are different wide? When i select
> Arial and write 1111111111 in one row and in the one underneath
8888888888,
> they have the same length. (Digits have the same width, normally. There
are
> exceptions from the rule, of course.)
>
> I think that the blanks are your problem. "bbbbb1" and "888888" will lead
to
> a 1 standing much too far left. If this is the case, try to insert the
font
> changing sequence just before the first digit and leave the blanks in a
> fixed space font.
>
> If you have now just inserted the font change at the beginning of the data
> stream, this is much work.
> Then follow the advice and use a fixed space font.
>
> 0.02 Euro
> --
> Anton Gombk


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ötö

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¨¹ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: <Phil.Conibere@tgb.toyota.co.uk>
An: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. April 2000 17:02
Betreff: Fonts & RPG


>
>
> Here's a little brain teaser. I have an RPG (and an EXTERNAL(!) PRTF) that
> prints customer statements. A requirement has been for the font to be made
Arial
> - which I have done (thanks to the help from this group), however, Arial
is a
> proportional font so a column of debits on the page all look out of
alignment
> (because a '1' is smaller than an '8' say), other than using a different
font
> for the debit values, does anybody know a way around this?
>
> Has anyone used ICS's Formsprint? Would this be an easier solution to
re-format
> the output?
>
> Ta,
> Phil.
>
>
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