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Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:00 am**

I have a progam that prints out card using the following code and It looks normal on paper under 2.8.1, but as soon as I install 2.9 the fonts look tiny on the paper.

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  answer printer
  Put the number of cards of stack"PrintSingle" into pnt_card_calc
  go invisible to stack"PrintSingle"
  go to the first card
  go to next card
  open printing
  Repeat with crds = 2 to pnt_card_calc
    print this card into 0,0,(8.5*72),(11*50)
    print break
    go to next card
  end Repeat
  close printing

I know 2.9 uses some new print commands, but It seems to do everything right except everything is tiny.

Thanks for the help

Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:00 pm**

Is everything scaled down, or just the fonts?
Also try to put the target rectangle into a variable beforehand, to ensure that the parser isn't confused.

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put 0,0,(8.5*72),(11*50) into tPageRect
answer tPageRect  -- just checking
repeat with crds = 2 to pnt_card_calc
  print this card into tPageRect
  print break
  go to next card
end repeat

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:58 pm**

Jan,

Thanks for the help. Everyhting is spread across the paper correctly but the fonts are tiny. Its not like someone took the original and reduced it on a copier. Everything is proportionate, just tiny. When I switch back to ver 8 it prints perfect.

Hope I described it ok

Thanks

Posted: **Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:40 pm**

Is this on MacOSX, Windows, Linux?

If you're using Windows, you should look at the 'formatForPrinting' stack property. Windows uses different fonts for display on screen and printing on paper. Maybe Rev 2.9 is more senstive, as they reworked the printing aspects of the engine.

Maybe if you could reduce it to a simple example, and post that to the Quality Center, Revolution can figure out if they need to update the engine.

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:25 pm**

It is on a windows based machine.

I do have the formatForPrinting property set to true and its wierd, it prints perfect under the old version.

Posted: **Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:56 pm**

As a long shot, are the fonts you're using in the stack listed in the result of calling

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fontNames(printer)

- that's just about all we can check before handing this over to the RunRev Quality team...

Jan Schenkel.

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Printing issue with 2.9...worked fine in 2.8.1

Printing issue with 2.9...worked fine in 2.8.1