Canon ir2200i PCL

rbuser

We have some reports that use a Letter Gothic font for columns of figures.

When printing to the Canon via the Canon PCL driver, the Letter Gothic fonts
are replaced and come out as another very large font.

If you print from MS Word using Letter Gothic, everything is fine.

Is there a better fixed space font ( similar to Arial ) that we could use ?

Any suggestions please ?

Regards Paul.

digitalmetaphors

Is the font installed for that printer? Can you print some test text using
Delphi's TPrinter object using the Letter Gothic font?


uses
Printers;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin

Printer.BeginDoc;

Printer.Canvas.Font.Name := 'Letter Gothic';
Printer.Canvas.TextOut(250, 250, 'Hello World');

Printer.EndDoc;

end;


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim

It's OK printing from MS Word, the printer outputs Letter Gothic no problem.
Would it prove anything else if I tried your short test ?

I'm trying not to interrupt the users too much as this is a new customer.

Paul.

digitalmetaphors

If it prints ok from Word, it means that the font is installed and it is
there to be used for printing. I also have the Letter Gothic font installed
as a printer font from an HP Laserjet 5 printer as my default printer. I see
the Letter Gothic font from Word, Excel, Wordpad and ReportBuilder. One test
is to make sure that the printer to be used for printing the report is the
default printer for that machine and that it is the selected pritner for
this report. Maybe we are getting a list of fonts from another printer
incorrectly? We use Win API calls to get the list of installed fonts from
the currently selected printer for the report.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors