Report Font Display Different in distrubition then in dev.

[Pollock]

Have a distributed application on client machine. Client is running win xp and using hp 722 color ink jet. Report is external to compiled application. On client machine have command line editor to modify report. Problem is when viewing the report thru editor looks fine every thing lines up correctly. In runtime text lines are long, some items do not line up correctly (ie. text lines either longer or shorter than they appear in report). Have cleaned out expr,tag,tag2. Have verified that client has proper fonts. Almost seems like in preview and print it is doing printer font substitution. But under driver for xp for printer no where does it have a setting for doing printer font substitution. Just wondering if anybody has run into this problem before?

 

[rgbean]

Does the printer have built-in fonts? I've even run into problems with Dot Matrix printers that have their own versions of certain fonts, and while they print faster, they are not necessarily the "same" as the Windows TT fonts.

Rick

 

[GriffMG]

What I do to overcome this is use a disk editor to modify the internal name of a copy of the appropriate .ttf file (renamed) and then distribute that with my application and let my set-up program install it.

Regards

Griff
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[Pollock]

Well it does look like thats what is doing, does anybody know of a way to prevent this font substitution from happening?

 

[rgbean]

There should be a way to configure the printer to not use it's fonts. It may be a switch, or you may be able to send it a configuration string - check the printer's manual
or visit the masnufacturer's website.

Rick