Re: Converting from True Type Fonts?

I see what you are saying and all "normal" Windows applications do work with
this printer. ie. I can print using Word, Excel or Acrobat Reader and the
printer works fine. It is just this one application I'm having a problem
with, it's an industry specific application called HomecareNet.

I have talked to the technical support for this software and they are the
ones who explained that their report was designed to print to a laser
printer. So they have not made their program flexible enough to print to
just any printer, rather they opted to assume one would only use laser
printers and coded their program accordingly. Don't ask me why. There is
also no provisions for selecting fonts within the program.

Let's see if I can remember how he described it... I think he said that the
program prints and image to the printer, which is what a laser printer uses.
Whereas the dot-matrix printer takes a raster(?) input? I'm not sure about
that last sentance, whether it is what he said or not. The printer tech
support person suggested they are using a True Type Font and when you send a
True Type Font to a dot-matrix printer the printer has to try and
interpolate the characters as best they can. Some printers are better at
this than others but it does cost in print quality and performance.

Our problem is that we require this report to print on multi-part paper,
which, to the best of my knowledge doesn't exist for a laser printer.

Wow, sorry if I got carried away here, hopefully it helps everyone
understand the situation better. But this is why I am looking for something
that will translate the True Type fonts to something the dot-matrix printer
can use.

Thanks,
Linn

"Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]" <hhh@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not knowing what application you have there, if it allows you to use
whatever printers you have installed in Windows AND if it allows you to
choose the font to use, you should be able to use the resident fonts in
the
dot matrix printer. As an example, Windows will allow me to use an old
Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer. If I select this printer in, say, Word
and
look at the font list, the resident "hardware" fonts in this printer will
appear in the list.

Hal
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"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Here is my situation. I have a need to print on multi-part forms, thus I
need to print to a dot-matrix printer. Problem is, is that the software
I
have to use is not designed to print to a dot-matrix printer but rather a
laser printer. My best guess is that they are using True Type Fonts.

I've tried printing to my dot-matrix printer and the results are, well,
poor. So, I am wondering if anyone has heard of a utility that will
convert
the laser printer output of this application to dot-matrix form? It
would
need to do this conversion on the fly so as to be as transperant to the
user
as possible.

Has anyone heard of such a thing or even know what I'm talking about?

We are using Windows XP Pro workstations and Windows 2003 Servers.

Thanks in advance,
Linn






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