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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I think the issues you mention,
Richard, are the perhaps mostly new considerations that now have
to be made when using the character-based tool (Define Output) to
work more with proportional fonts, graphics, etc. (Not having a
WYSIWYG editor.) <br>
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One thing that I have found helpful is that when designing a
columnar section of a form, if I want proportional fonts as
headings, I only turn proportion on at the very start of a
column's heading (turning off immediately afterward). This keeps
the heading much more in the ballpark visually (above the data
below the heading) when looking at the output format in Define
Output. (In other words, as much as possible, let the
non-proportional font govern the space characters in between
headings.) I actually do the same for the data below heading, but
if it is numeric data, I need it to be right-justified, so in that
case, I usually have the entire data line set for the fixed-width
Courier.<br>
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For page width, it seems that the page must just be sufficiently
wide to handle text and any graphics (especially line drawing).
It's almost like you can't make a form too wide in this scenario;
but making it to narrow or using too much of the width can result
in clipping. <br>
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With regard to vertical positioning, I added some print code
entries to fpml3 for some of that - things like move "1/4 line
forward and backward and 1 and 2 'points' forward and backward. I
also added about 34 print codes for changing font size to cover
font size changes between 6 point and 30 point. <br>
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One thing that I'll have to submit as an enhancement request is
for a current minimum "line spacing". For some forms, I've had to
start each line with a print code to move down 2 points to give
more space between lines with a small font. (The default vertical
line spacing for say a 10pt. font seems to now be 8 lines per
inch, whereas before I guess the default was always 6 lpi unless
you changed it.) So it would be nice if you could set a "minimum
lpi" setting that would stay and not be breached just from using a
small font, unless you changed such a setting elsewhere on the
form.<br>
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On 6/13/18 11:16 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">There are a number of small issues with the filePro PDF engine.
I have been working on a form for my community and having to make adjustments to get the output to look like I want it. Part of the problem is using proportional fonts which make setting the page width difficult. Also, with the default page size having a 1/2 inch margin, again that make things difficult. Also, although most measurements are in points (1/72 of an inch), the move to command if used move lines up or down are in lines not points. This does make it easy to adjust things up or down, but is not consistent. However, by using point size, one can make finite adjustments for locations.
I think most of us have run into the situation where the defined page size has little relation to the actual paper size. If one is using a 12 cpi font, the page width can be wider then when using a 10- CPI font. As I indicated, using proportional fonts makes this more difficult to calculate.
Richard Kreiss
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Without throwing an error?! *weary sigh*
That's some awesome sanity checking...
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list thus
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<pre wrap="">Yeah - I can't answer for Windows filepro, but the behavior under
Linux might give some clues. If I omit the path and just try to
output the filename, it writes it to the current working directory.
If it doesn't have permission to write it there, it seems to have
thrown the output away (based on my tests using the find command).
On 6/13/18 3:50 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If the colon was missing, I would assume relative to the current
working directory at the time you started the filePro binary which
performed the action. If you specified only a filename for the
location, then I'd expect it to be named (assuming you said
DPDFfilename.txt) DPDFfilename.txt. If you had pathing information,
I'd expect it to have tried to store relative to the starting point.
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 07:25:32PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
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<pre wrap="">Having an issue that maybe someone can help me with.
Create a PDF output using the -P DPF:[Location] on the command line. The
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<pre wrap="">output runs but no pdf file is created.
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<pre wrap="">I tracked down part of the issue to an error in my command line. I had
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<pre wrap="">omitted the color after the drive letter and before the backslash. Once
corrected, the output file was created where specified.
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<pre wrap="">My question is: Where did filePro try to or create the output file? FilePro
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<pre wrap="">did not show an error that it was unable to create the output file. Therefore, I
am assuming (bad word) that the output went somewhere. But where is a
mystery.
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<pre wrap="">I did check all possible temp directories(folders). PFTMP is set to c:\PFTEMP
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<pre wrap="">which exists.
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<pre wrap="">I have asked Fp support this question and have not received an answer.
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<pre wrap="">That make me think that there may be a bug in the PDF creation routine. Most
ither times filePro will put up an error message when it can't create the output
file.
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