Re: Rotated Text Help Needed

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Okay, I tried your experiment and got an interesting result. The
first print out was as I said originally... only the circles
(large and small) and the letters printed out. No shading or boxes
anywhere. However, the remaining three print outs were all the
same, but different from the first print out. These last three
print outs had an 8" by 8" almost solid black box (as close as you
can get to being solid without actually being solid) with white
boxes surrounding the black letters. I presume the white boxes
were the cells that contain the letters (the"I", "T", "O" and
blank at the 90 degree locations were all smaller than the rest).
Using a jeweler's loupe, I can see that the large and small
circles printed out also. Does that help you any? If you want, I
can scan these and email them to you, but you won't see anything
more than I've described. Your choice though; let me know.

Oh! and yes, my spell checker is working fine... there is no "U"
in the word color.<g>

Rick



"Mike Williams" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Rick Rothstein [MVP - Visual Basic]"
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>
> > 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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