Re: Print problem - if monospace font specified, prints in variable spacing

Y'all

I did try setting default.print.font -

set default.print.font "Lucida Sans Typewriter-Bold-11"

- and that seems to work - I'd set it to some Courier bold italic at 12 pt, and that persisted between starts.

When my default.print.font was the Courier one, I tried this print command -

print block leftMargin 100 rightMargin 100 font "Lucida Sans Typewriter-11"

- and that did NOT work, as I've reported here.

So as far as I'm concerned, that is a bug.

Thanks to all who responded to this conversation!

Vern

On 6/20/2016 10:18 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Thanks, Michael, I'll give the setting a try - and let y'all know, of course, my progress!

It STILL should work as a parameter on the print command itself, IMO, so we shall see - I'll try without the style that I was using, maybe that isn't part of the Lucida Sans Typewriter font - but it works on the screen - we shall see!

Cheers
Vern

On 6/20/2016 9:04 AM, MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/17/2016 01:00:03 PM:

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Re: [WDSCI-L] Print problem - if monospace font specified, prints in
variable spacing

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When you tried to print in Lucida Console, did you use the set
command first? ...or, did you specify that value as a parameter to the
print command? If the former, I would expect it to print correctly. If
the latter, apparently, that does not work correctly and should be

fixed.

But, that would not be an RFE. That would be a PMR.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

Dave(/Vern),

I did a 'set default.print.font'. However, I decided to try it again. I
believe I must have had the quotes wrong. Here's the command I just used
with successful results:

set print.font "Lucida Console-12"

Which defaults to "Lucida Console-regular-12"--i.e., defaulting "regular".
This enabled printing in Lucida Console.

So Vern should be able to use the following:

set default.print.font "Lucida Sans Typewriter-11"

That should get him the results he is after. (It prints correctly for me.)
And it should be retained across restarts. If not, I think a PMR would be
in order. It's either a problem on his PC, his RDi installation, the
printer he's printing to, or the connection to that printer.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org