"Kevin L. Newman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote...
>I've just put a new HP Laserjet 5 SI/MX printer in place and it works
>very well, but I have one hitch.  I have another computer ...
>Honeywell I think ... that is printing to it as a parallel printer.
>The thing is: even though I set the printer up as landscape, I am
>still loosing data off to the right of the page.  On all of the older
>printer, you could just select a compressed font and everything works.
<snip>
 (s0p16.67h0s0b4099T
One thing you could do is to send an escape sequence at the beginning
of your print file that selects the tiny lineprinter font.
 
The escape sequence to select the lineprinter font is
 
   esc(s0p16.67h8.5v0s0b0T
 
Note that you don't enter 'esc' as part of the command.  It's actually
the ascii 'escape' character, decimal 27, or octal 33.
 
If you don't like lineprinter, you can scale down the courier until
it fits.
 
   esc(s0p16.67h0s0b4099T
          -----
          This part, 16.67h is the pitch of the font.
 
Of course, if your report is using a proportional font, i.e.
the character widths are all different, you can still scale the
size. You can try sending
 
   esc(8V
 
to change the point size, for example.  The proportional-width fonts,
such as CG Times, Universe, Garamond, etc. have a changeable point
size, i.e. the height of the font.
The fixed-width fonts have changeable pitch, or characters-per-inch.
 
\KenR
Ken Robertson
Manager MIS
Robelle Consulting Ltd.
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