>I have a problem where I need to print using a really HUGE font -- the sample Excel sheet given to me uses Book Antigua with font size = 175.
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>The goal here is to print a single piece of paper that is attached to a pallet that might be 20 feet up, and we want to be able to read the tag number (a six digit number) from the ground.
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>So the report does not have much on it (about ten single fields) but two of them are huge -- the other is 120.
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>I was unable to get anything in report designer over 72 (I think that's what it was), far from what I need.
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>Any ideas?
Long ago I did that, to be stuck on crates in a cold storage so the forklift driver could read them. I went straight to the printer driver (esc/p at the time) and stored an image of each character in a memo, then just added the positioning codes and dumped the whole composite image to the printer. That was in 1990 or so, and no I don't have the code anymore. Basically, I took whatever imaging software I had then, and printed one single character (I think only digits were needed) into a file, then analyzed the file, took out the image itself and saved that part into a memo. Then wrapped that up in positioning escape sequence, then wrapped that all in reset printer + images + eject page code. Took a few hours to do.