Re: Deskjet 500 & GS

[mills@MAX.EE.LSU.EDU (John Mills)]

>>If it uses proportional printing as John Link's SuperPatch I'll stand
>>in line for it!!!
>      
>Well, I'm all for it, but I'm not exactly sure how to support it.  The
>only proportional font built in to the DeskJet500 is CGTimes, but I just
>have absolutely no idea how to calculate the size of a row with
>proportional text.  The only way I could think of would be to count each
>character and add up as you go from l->right, but that would be painfully
>slow (plus, I'd have to find out just how wide each character is -- ugh).
>      
>Any ideas?
>      
>>		Joe Walters att!ihlpm!bird, NW 31-K14 (708) 224-7189
>-- 
>|          James Brookes            | Inet: bb252@cleveland.freenet.edu |

Wouldn't all the font info be in some kind of reference or tech. manual? I know
the sizing stuff is NOT in the manual that comes with the DJ. Mine didn't.
However, it does mention something about a Technical Reference Manual 
# C2106-90030.

Just a thought.... :)


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