Re: Point/Pitch sizes when printing from Informix

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 mikeh@bitsnpcs.co.uk wrote: > Firstly I do not know Informix at all. > > We have a client that wants to buy a laser printer to replace their line > printer. Seems reasonable. > They want to be able to print small (8 point), and their ask what laser > printer will do. Almost any laser printer will do 8 point fonts when requested to do so. > We believe anything will do, and all that would be required is a printer > command string at the top of any of their printed output. Alternatively, > maybe we could set the printer to print small from it's own menu. Either or both is feasible. It will depend on whether the 8 point output is really a sensible default or not as to whether this is best handled via the printer's menu or not. An 8 point font is awfully small for general purpose output; 10-12 points is a better size. Most likely, you'd want to have the printer itself default to 10 points or so, and then have the special jobs which require the 8 point output put in an appropriate pre-amble. Wishing you a Happy New Year... Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <witticism.h>