Landscape Form Or Graphics Printing Portrait

DocumentID: 612294
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:35:26 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The message "Action Required In Printer Control" appeared when printing a landscape form with the following settings to a dot-matrix printer: Format: Edit Paper Definition Filename PAKXP159.PRS 1 - Paper Size 11" x 8.5" 2 - Paper Type Standard - Wide 3 - Font Type Landscape 4 - Prompt to Load No 5 - Location Continuous 6 - Double Sided Printing No 7 - Binding Edge Left 8 - Labels No 9 - Text Adjustment - Top 0" Side 0" After pressing G to continue in Printer Control, the form printed portrait instead of landscape. Another customer had the font type defined as Landscape for a dot-matrix printer and graphics would not print correctly. If the user changes the font back to Portrait, the graphics print fine. Solutions: This is a limitation of dot-matrix printers; they cannot print true landscape. When printing landscape to a dot-matrix printer, the Font Type should be set to Portrait. The paper should then be inserted sideways since all dot-matrix printers do not have landscape fonts to print sideways. The user may need to define the paper size as Wide if the printer has a wide carriage.

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