M.A.Rahin@lut.ac.uk (Mohammad A. Rahin) (04/23/91)
Many recently, once again showed their frustration for not being able to draw fancy charts with the OPUS program. All this is mainly due to OPUS's rather strict rule on printer font selection. The main requirement is that one must use the exact corresponding printer font as for the screen font. If this requirement is satisfied, one is more or less assured of hassle free operation. There is one other thing one must do, i.e., run FONTWIDT.PRG in order to set up font metrics for OPUS's internal use. Any way, here is my ASSIGN.SYS file. It works perfectly OK with me and hopefully will work for you as well. [ I'm using a mono screen and a 24-pin Epson LQ800 compatible printer. ] ------------------------ Sample ASSIGN.SYS File -------------------------- path = A:\GEMSYS 01p screen.sys ; DEFAULT 02p screen.sys ; LOW RESOLUTION 03p screen.sys ; MEDIUM RESOLUTION 04p screen.sys ; HIGH RESOLUTION ; SWISS FONT shss06un.fnt shss07un.fnt shss10un.fnt shss12un.fnt shss14un.fnt shss18un.fnt shss24un.fnt ; DUTCH FONT shtr07un.fnt ;shtr10un.fnt ; corresponding printer font is not available shtr12un.fnt ; -> Helevetica 12 Pt. converted from MAC. ;shtr14un.fnt ; 14 pt printer font is not available shtr18un.fnt ;Printer is 24-pin Epson (LQ800) 21 LQ800.SYS ; SWISS FONT lqss06un.fnt lqss07un.fnt lqss10un.fnt lqss12un.fnt lqss14un.fnt lqss18un.fnt lqss24un.fnt ; DUTCH FONT ;lqtr06un.fnt ; I don't have screen fonts for 6 & 8 pt dutch. ;lqtr08un.fnt lqtr07un.fnt lqtr12un.fnt lqtr18un.fnt ;lqtr24un.fnt 31 META.SYS ----------------------------- END --------------------------------------- Hope this helps. -Rahin
D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Halliday) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr22.170659.28977@lut.ac.uk>, M.A.Rahin@lut.ac.uk (Mohammad A. Rahin) writes: |>Many recently, once again showed their frustration for not being able to draw |>fancy charts with the OPUS program. All this is mainly due to OPUS's rather |>strict rule on printer font selection. The main requirement is that one must |>use the exact corresponding printer font as for the screen font. If this |>requirement is satisfied, one is more or less assured of hassle free |>operation. There is one other thing one must do, i.e., run FONTWIDT.PRG in |>order to set up font metrics for OPUS's internal use. Any way, here is my |>ASSIGN.SYS file. It works perfectly OK with me and hopefully will work for you |>as well. |>[ I'm using a mono screen and a 24-pin Epson LQ800 compatible printer. ] |> Another problem is that the fonts _must_ be in the same order for every device in the list. If you do not have a printer font for a screen font that you are using you can simply use the screen font as a printer font but I wouldn't use it in opus or the printed output will be minute. For example when running gemini, you may wan't to have the gemini font for the console window and this font has no printer version. Dave Halliday (D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)