Elongated print code on LJ4

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, William James McEachran wrote:

> I've inherited an old form that was designed for a dot matrix printer.
> It uses a lot of elongated on/off codes.
>
> I notice that the various HP prt files (and Anzio's printwiz.prt) don't
> have entries in the elongated code sections. Not a good sign for me :-(
>
> How can I get Laser Jet 5 to do the equivalent of elongated on/off
> for fonts in 10 and 12 pitch?

Do you mean double wide, for a given height? Assuming you do...

In PCL there is not a way to do that. For a fixed-space font, you can set
the pitch, but that determines the height. In other words, you can't
change the aspect ratio.

In Print Wizard, you could add a printcode to printwiz.prt that would set
pitch to 200% while leaving everything else the same; something like:
   <font\ pitch=200%>

(the backslash is in the file if you edit it outside fP, as I recall).

To turn off "elongated", either respecify the intended pitch in absolute
terms, or create an entry that sets it to 50%.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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