How can I make a dot matrix printer roll the paper backwards by 3 lines?
Fonts are no big deal, but moving the paper and print head to the
correct spots is pretty important.
Mike Sinclair
Michael Young wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> As far as I know, you cannot use printer control codes in Windows. That
> was a DOS thing. Everything is handled by setting FONTS from Windows
> tools now. These are available in the Reports designer. You can bold,
> underline, set the font size, etc. I deleted all of my codes when I converted
> the reports.
>
> Best regards,
> Mike Young
>
> On Wed, 02 May 2001 08:04:37 -0400, MJS wrote:
>
> >Hello wizards,
> >
> >I'm trying to convert some Rbase for DOS reports into Rbase for Windows
> >Reports. I used to really cool things with printer control codes
> >embedded in the reports, but that does not seem to work in the Windows
> >conversion. I tried converting the <27 48> to (char(27))+(char(48)),
> >but it does not appear to convert directly........the characters appear
> >different. Any ideas?
> >
> >TIA!
> >
> >Mike Sinclair
