Re: Rotated Text Help Needed

"Rick Rothstein [MVP - Visual Basic]" <rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:e1Xp2AryFHA.3860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> It must be a setting in my color laser printer, but I don't see
> the shaded "cell" boxes for the letters. However, there is no
> question that the "I", "T" and "O" (I can't see the space, of
> course) are set noticeably closer to the circle than the other
> letters, thus indicating their encasing "cell" boxes are indeed
> smaller. If it helps any, my system is WinXP Pro Sp1.

Thanks Rick. By the way, did you click the button twice (so as to get two
separate printouts)? Or perhaps did you run the same program twice? Did you
actually get the "light grey" rectangle behind the circle of characters, but
the characters themselves were printed without a "white rectangle"
surrounding them? Or do you perhaps not see the light grey large rectangle
at all? I ask this because I know there have been lots of problems in the
past with the VB printer object and I am interested to know whether all (or
perhaps some) of them still exist today. I'd appreciate it if you would tell
me *exactly* what you see on the page, and how many times you clicked the
button on my example code.

I know that you're probably a busy man Rick, and I really don't want to take
up a lot of your valuable time, but I really would appreciate it if you
looked into this a little more for me. Run my program and click the button
at least twice. Then run it again and do the same. Are all four printed
sheets exactly the same?

By the way, the intention of the code I posted is to produce a large 8 inch
by 8 inch "light grey" filled square and to print on top of that the
individual characters of the string, with each character glyph (the shape of
the actual character) being printed in black and sitting roughly in the
middle of its own "character cell" (which should itself be white). Is that
what you see? Otherwise, tell me exactly what it is you see (and don't
forget to run the program more than once and to click the button more than
once each time).

I'm sure you'll appreciate this Rick (you must know what sort of a man I am
by now) but if I write a program that works for all the thousands of
printers and machines that I test it on and yet it doesn't work for "Rick's
Colour Laser" the I'm afraid I've got to assume that it doesn't work at all!
.. . . and I've got to fix it so that it works exactly the same for
everything (including Rick's colour laser) - otherwise I've failed!

By the way, are you sure that you've got your spell checker working properly
Rick? I'm sure there's a "u" in "colour" ;-)

Mike





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