Creating a report viewer in Visual Studio using crystal report. Accidentally something happened and all the fonts in format editor properties were replaced with only device font 10cpi,12cpi and 17cpi in the dropdown. Need help to get the fonts back
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I get a quick printout with 10 CPI.I want to print 12 CPI instead of 10 CPI so I choose CG Times with fontsize8. The preview reflected the change but I still get 10 CPI on myEpson dot matrix printer. There is no way I can specify the 12 CPIrequest in the Windows generic/text printer driver. I also try toassign the Epson control code in a QRLabel.Caption but nothing happened.Any help will be appreicated.Peter.
I already answered this in a previous post. I will repeat my answer...Printing through the Generic/Text only printer driver discards ALL font information along with all other control codes. That is its intendedpurpose.If you want to have control over the font, then you have to use the correct printer driver for your printer. Terry's comment about using a resident printer font is a good tip. Using a true-type font, for instance means that the printer driver will render the page image in graphics mode then send the graphical data to the printer. That is a lot more data to send, and the printer will print slower in graphics mode anyway.You need to choose fonts that are native to the printer. To do this, load an application that includes printer fonts in its list of available fonts (they show up with a printer icon alongside instead of the TT logo or whatever). Look for something like Roman 10cpi, Roman 12cpi etc.Now that you know what they are called, switch back to CR and see if it lets you specify those fonts. I don't have CR, so I can't advise there.With QuickReport, although the font selector will not show you any printer fonts, if you know the name of a printer font you can just type it into the Object Inspector after you have clicked the + sign to expand the Font property details.Beware that working this way, the design mode and preview mode will not be particularly WYSIWYG!--Bill Sparrow--
In fact I have eliminate other cause by testing on Word for Window. Iselected the font with a printer icon next to it and type some text. When Itry to print it, it still comes out in graphic mode instead of the residentfont. (It is even worst that selecting Windows TT font in term of speed!) Maybe the trouble is on my printer. It is a 9 pin Epson LX800. The Epson Webpage's FAQ also mentioned about the speed of printing under Windows and gavesome similar suggestion. But again the result is the same.I am looking for a ESC/P2 24 pin printer and see if there are any differenceon the printer driver.-Peter -
> Thanks Bill. I tried your suggestion but still fail.> > In fact I have eliminate other cause by testing on Word for Window. I> selected the font with a printer icon next to it and type some text. > When I> try to print it, it still comes out in graphic mode instead of the > resident> font. (It is even worst that selecting Windows TT font in term of > speed!) May> be the trouble is on my printer. It is a 9 pin Epson LX800. The Epson > Web> page's FAQ also mentioned about the speed of printing under Windows and > gave> some similar suggestion. But again the result is the same.> > I am looking for a ESC/P2 24 pin printer and see if there are any > difference> on the printer driver.> > -Peter ->
One thing I should have emphasised is that the font you select has to be a resident printer font for that specific printer. When an application shows you the list of available fonts, if it shows some with a printer icon in place of the TT icon, then they will be printer fonts for the current _default_ printer. So make sure you set your dot matrix as your Windows default printer before starting your experiments.As a test, I just installed the drivers for an Epson LX-800 on my Windows NT4 machine, and made that printer the default. When I look at the available fonts in my Word Processor, (WordPerfect 8), it shows the following printer fonts:-Draft 10cpiDraft 12cpiDraft 17cpiDraft 20cpiDraft 5cpiDraft 6cpiRoman 10cpiRoman 12cpiRoman 5cpiRoman 6cpiSans Serif 10cpiSans Serif 12cpiSans Serif 5cpiSans Serif 6cpiTo find out what is really happening behind the scenes, you can install a copy of your printer driver and set it to print to file instead of to LPT1. Then you can examine the output with a text/hex file viewer (or even with Windows Notepad!). If it is printing in graphics mode, then there will be no readable text in the print file. If it is using resident fonts (or downloaded fonts - not possible on your printer I believe) then you will see bits of readable text mixed in with all the escape codes to set up the printer's options and to position the print head.--Bill Sparrow--
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