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- From: timb@sr.hp.com (Tim Bagwell)
- Subject: Re: Windows printing (tabs in particular)
- Sender: news@srgenprp.sr.hp.com (placeholder for future)
- Message-ID: <BzHBup.ID9@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:56:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.191033.27234@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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- : "If you use the HP III driver and do the standard printing seqeuence you
- : get (in all cases) the tab translated into ascii 127 (which showed up as a
- : dithered/shaded box in the printout). In the case of a dot-matrix driver
- : you get a dot instead of 127. That is all fom the "recommended" public
- : algorithms.
- :
-
- Hmmm, I have used the HP IIP driver with the TabbedTextOut function and
- it works fine. Tab positions (in pixels) are passed in an integer array.
- Maybe there is a problem with the newer driver.
-