Re: Printing a Box

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"Rick Raisley" <heavymetal-A-T-bellsouth-D-O-T-net> wrote in message news:ebCeQasyHHA.3848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Not wanting to add fuel to a fire, but occasionally using a font
character works out much better. In my own case, I had hundreds
of very small squares and circles to print on a sheet, and found
the printing time /very/ slow using the normal line and circle
commands. I found usable characters in a font, and the printing
time went to a small fraction of its previous time.

That can of course be the case with some (but not all) printers, especially if you are driving the printer in raw data mode rather than the standard graphical page mode, or if you using built in printer fonts or uploaded softfonts, especially if your output requirements are limited. As you say, it's horses for courses. But for optimum flexibility and output quality I still prefer cracking the nut with the dreadfully complex Printer.Line hammer ;-)

Mike



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