Printer Fonts Selected by Dynamics

Issue

Howto tell which fonta report is printed in?


Resolution

Add the following setting to the Dex.ini file: DebugFonts=TRUE. The Dex.ini is found on each workstation.


It will create a file called DEBUGLOG.TXT in the folder where the Dynamics dictionary is located once you print a report.


The following is an entry in the DEBUGLOG.TXT file for Dynamics, printing an 81-character 10 CPI report. Each entry will be determined by the type and size of report printed.


Printer Info- Printer Driver: IBM59031

Printer Name : Okidata ML590/1 IBM

Printer Port : LPT1:

Driver Version: 780

Printer Res : 180 ---

Date: 04/10/1999

Time: 16:45:20

DevWidth: 1440 L

ogPixelsX: 180

XAspect: 180

Found Better Face: Courier 10cpi

devWidth: 1440

numChars: 80

Penalty: 0

Height: 25

lfWidth: 18

tmWidth: 18

Weight: 400

Italic: 0

Found Better Neg Face: Courier 6cpi

devWidth: 1440

numChars: 80

Penalty: -960

Height: 25

lfWidth: 30

tmWidth: 30

Weight: 400

Italic: 0 Found

Better Neg Face: Courier 7.5cpi

devWidth: 1440

numChars: 80

Penalty: -480

Height: 25

lfWidth: 24

tmWidth: 24

Weight: 400

Italic: 0

Found Better Neg Face: Courier 8.5cpi

devWidth: 1440

numChars: 80

Penalty: -240

Height: 25

lfWidth: 21

tmWidth: 21

Weight: 400

Italic: 0

pick_best_font:

Candidate Font:Courier 10cpi

Accepting Device Font - Error:0, Tol:0

The Font Selected Is: Courier 10cpi

devWidth: 1440

numChars: 81

Penalty: 0

Height: 25

lfWidth: 18

tmWidth: 18

Weight: 400

Italic: 0


The font the report printed with is Courier 10 CPI. This log file is mainly used for debugging purposes, but you also can use it to determine a report's font. Remove the defaults file setting after printing the report; otherwise, each time something is printed in Dynamics another entry will be added to the log file.

This article was TechKnowledge Document ID:5016