Please provide examples of vertically positioning objects in 1/6 inch increments (from Printing to d

rbuser

Hello,

1) Please provide calculation examples of vertically positioning objects
(report bands, objects, margins, etc) in 1/6 inch increments (this is
mentioned in the Printing to Dot Matrix Printers tech-tips Example #2.)

Specifically the height of the band being a multiple of 1/6 (66 lines
divided by 11 inches for portrait pages).

According to my calculations, 1/6 would translate to 0.166667 when using
Excel spreadsheet. Is there a suggested guideline as to how many decimal
places to use?

2) Are these correct heights to be a multiple of 1/6?

My Header band height is: 3.9
Detail is: 0.8
Group Footer is: 1.94
Page footer is: .18


Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Karen

nicocizik

Hi Karen,


When creating reports to be printed to a Dot Matrix printer it is much
easier to use PrinterPixels as a measurement tool rather than inches. For
instance if you set your PrinterSetup to measure with 600 dpi, then 100 dots
= 1/6 inch. Keeping your bands, margins, and text components in 100 dot
increments is much easier to handle than trying to calculate and round in
inches.

This would change your band heights to approximately...

My Header band height is: 2400
Detail is: 500
Group Footer is: 1200
Page footer is: 100

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thank you Nico.

Would you add the example and explanation to the tech-tips newsgroup in the
dot matrix printer tech article for others to have as a reference
consolidated in one place, also?

Many thanks and have a great day.