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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Sir,<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><div><br>I have been struggling to get bold letters in informix for CentoS 4.8 and I came across your article on PCL Command Sequences and I felt you could help.<br><br>I have the following declarations and print command in my informix-4gl but things don't seem to get right.<br><br><br> BoldOn CHAR(6),<br> BoldOff CHAR(6)<br><br><br> ----LET BoldOn = ASCII 27, ASCII '&040', ASCII '&115', ASCII '&052', ASCII
'&066'<br> ----LET BoldOff = ASCII 27, ASCII
'&040', ASCII '&115', ASCII '&048', ASCII '&066'<br><br> LET BoldOn = ASCII 27,"(s4B"<br> LET BoldOff = ASCII 27,"(s0B"<br><br><br> PRINT COLUMN 1, BoldOn CLIPPED, " ", "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN", BoldOff,<br> COLUMN 54, BoldOn CLIPPED, " ", "Ref: ", BoldOff CLIPPED, r_refno<br><br> PRINT COLUMN 1, BoldOn CLIPPED, " ", "This is to certify that: ", BoldOff, r_surname, " ", r_firstname<br><br>and this what I am getting:<br><br> ^[(s4B TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN^[(s0B ^[(s4B Ref: ^[(s0B 9844510<br> ^[(s4B This is to certify that: ^[(s0B NAMONJE
CAROL<br> ^[(s4B is a registered student of the National Institute of Public Administration^[(s0B<br><br>We have HP LaserJet P3005 and P3015 Printers.<br><br>How can I avoid printing these charaters and instead print Bold letters ?<br><br><br>Your help will highly be appreciated.<br><br><br>Felix Mwango Mutale<br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></div>
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