> >In a program I am making print outs of my panel. Now when printing>from
> one pc I get nice small but readable numbers on the scales of>my panels chart.
> Using another pc (and the same printer via network)>the numbers are small
> and (rather) unreadable.>Where can I determine the size and type of the font
> used for printing?>The screen version looks all the same to me ... (?)>>win98
> / lv 5.01>>Christoph
>
> When you are using the "default system font", Labview has a mind of its own.
> You can trace the actual font through the windows progman.ini and system.ini
> files, but there is an easier way: simply replace the font being used on
> your front panel with a standard Truetype font, such as Courier New, Arial
> or Times New Roman, and you will find tha
t the agreement is much better.
Actually, it isn't so much LV as the interaction of the different drivers.
The default font name can be defined in the .ini file, but it is by default
taken directly from the system. This basically uses the correct large/small
font for your system and becomes very important if you are on a Japanese,
Russian, or system which otherwise uses a font that is defined as part
of the
locale. This font is then used (selected) into the screen drawing context
where the screen drivers do their thing and draw dots on the screen for a
given text string. Unfortunately, when this same font is selected into the
printer drawing context, substitutions may take place, and they often
do, and
you may get different results. Note this is also different with the version
of the MS OS you are using.
Anyway, your suggestion of sticking to a True Type font is generally a very
good one. Now if MS would define their default font as one that is True Type,
lots of these problems
would go away. By the way, I'm almost certain that
Win2000 did this.
Greg McKaskle
