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From: D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ASSIGN.SYS for OPUS spreadsheet/Charting program
Keywords: OPUS, ASSIGN.SYS, GDOS
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.084025.3454@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Apr 91 08:40:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.170659.28977@lut.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Apr22.170659.28977@lut.ac.uk>, M.A.Rahin@lut.ac.uk
(Mohammad A. Rahin) writes:
|>Many recently, once again showed their frustration for not being able to draw
|>fancy charts with the OPUS program. All this is mainly due to OPUS's rather
|>strict rule on printer font selection. The main requirement is that one must 
|>use the exact corresponding printer font as for the screen font. If this 
|>requirement is satisfied, one is more or less assured of hassle free 
|>operation. There is one other thing one must do, i.e., run FONTWIDT.PRG in 
|>order to set up font metrics for OPUS's internal use. Any way, here is my
|>ASSIGN.SYS file. It works perfectly OK with me and hopefully will work
for you 
|>as well.
|>[ I'm using a mono screen and a 24-pin Epson LQ800 compatible printer. ]
|>
                                                            
Another problem is that the fonts _must_ be in the same order for every
device in the list.

If you do not have a printer font for a screen font that you are using
you can simply use the screen font as a printer font but I wouldn't use
it in opus or the printed output will be minute. For example when
running gemini, you may wan't to have the gemini font for the console
window and this font has no printer version. 

Dave Halliday
(D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)