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Line Draw - How Does The Base Font Affect Lin |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Symptoms: The customer would like to know how the base font selection affects the line draw characters. The customer is using the Epson EPL-6000 printer defined as an HP LaserJet Series II. The customer thinks that the length of the characters is different when a different font is selected. Why does this occur? How can the user judge which font to choose to get the best results with Line Draw? Solutions: Line Draw is line characters. The first line that the customer created starts out with a corner character (see character 3,10). Then, there is a character for a straight line (see character 3,8). This is similar to drawing a line using a hyphen or underline character--the more characters, the longer the line. Then, the line ends with another corner character (see character 3,11). So, Line Draw is really like typing text on the screen, except it is made of line characters rather than alphabetical characters. Most users want the lines to line up and connect. A fixed pitch font must be used to accomplish this. A fixed pitch font will have the same length characters, where a proportionally spaced font would have varying lengths of characters. Using a proportionally spaced font could result in the characters not lining up, rather it may give a jagged appearance. Finally, depending upon the size of the fixed pitch font, the user can tell what the box will look like. Fonts are measured in two ways--height and width. CPI means "characters per inch" and this refers to width. A 10cpi font is one that fits 10 characters per inch along a line. A 16.6cpi font is smaller that the 10cpi font, because more characters can fit into an inch (almost 17 characters). Height of fonts is measured in a unit called points (pt). 72 points equals an inch. A 12pt font will be taller than a 10pt font. Once the user knows the size of the font, they can make a mental image of the size of the characters within the font. A 12pt 10cpi font gives you the dimensions of the font. All characters within the font will be the same size (12pt high and 10 characters per inch). The horizontal line (see character 3,8) will then be able to fit 10 lines together to make a line that is one inch. Six vertical lines (see character 3,9) stacked on top of each other will equal a vertical line of one inch. |
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