Documents that include text and tables are being printed with some of the fonts shown as bold (looks like some were printed over the same font), some showing slight double borders around the font, and just an overall, noticeably, low-quality look. This problem is exactly the same for both Word and WordPerfect. Table lines in Word are printed with wavy vertical lines in tables, as well as with the bad text.
I spoke to a Canon rep recently on an informal basis, and he suggested that I consider purchasing a new printer. This is not a problem for me; however, I would be quite disappointed to have the same problem happen with a new printer.
Is there any way to 'force' PrusaSlicer to recognise and print thin walls of 3D text? I'm having difficulty with the text in a plaque I designed for a fossil. I seem to remember I found a way to print fine text like this before but I can't remember the trick - or perhaps I'm remembering incorrectly!
Under 'Print Settings' and 'Layers and Perimeters' I have selected 'Extra Perimeters if needed' and 'Detect thin walls' but that doesn't appear to be enough. Is there any way to get the text to print more successfully without changing the nozzle out for a .25mm version?
To a point. The slicer can only print lines so thin, and exactly how thin depends on your nozzle size. You can print smaller features to a point bu enabling (or sometimes disabling) Print Settings->Layers and perimeters->Quality->Detect thin walls. It's really a try it and see measure since every print can be very different. Ideally, you want a nozzle size suited to printing features fine enough for your text, or alternately, use a more robust font for the text with features closer to the size of your selected nozzle.
Thanks. I experimented by turning 'detect thin walls' on and off but it didn't make a noticeable difference unfortunately. Interestingly opening the file in Cura and selecting 'thin walls' option produces better results but the words are still incomplete. I can't really increase the size of the text as it's already at the optimum size for the base plate it's to be attached to once printed. I've never printed with anything other than a .4mm nozzle before so maybe I should install .25mm and try something new!
I really need to stick with a serif font (which I guess are all harder to print at such a small size with a .4mm nozzle) as it better matches the fossil I'm creating the plaque for, but I appreciate the suggestions.
Thankyou guys. After having a play with the x/y compensation values I was able to get the sliced file looking much better (surprisingly turning OFF detect thin walls actually helped too) but the extrusion was just too thin for the .4 mm nozzle. Thickening the font helped a little but I couldn't thicken it enough to print successfully without making the font look stupid. So I'm either going to try to find a suitable serif font or change the nozzle size.
I have tried to calculate the font size, based on assuming that 1 inch is 72 points. So 3 inches is 216 points.If I need to print 20 lines in 3 inch space, my font size would be (216/20) which would be 10.8 points.
72 points per inch is not really a standard, but depends on the type of font, the spacing between lines and many other factors.So I fixed a font like "Courier" and then found what was the maximum font size I could print without any truncation/word wrap. Based on this font, I worked my way back to the points/per inch value.
Entering a carriage return from a line and then removing it will display a single line, and print preview will make all the lines show up, however any new text entered will only show the top half, until the text wraps, after which all but the final line will show in entirety. A new line will make both the previous line and itself display only the top half (even if the previous line had previously been visible).
As the comment above by @lkpinette indicates, this is like a font-related problem. It may be that LO is not handling the height metric in the Optima font, in which case please report a bug and provide the required font and example document for others to test. Otherwise, it may be a problem with how Ubuntu itself is handling the font or how the font itself is encoded.
I want to print directly using a line printer i.e. a dot matrix printer using its features of font tab carriage return and line feed from my JAVA program. I basically know how to print from JAVA. My problem is that in JAVA printing we first generate the graphic image of the page to be printed and then send it to the printer to be printed. But I am not asking my question on those lines. I want to directly send the text as a stream of characters to the printer with the applicable commands for the printer for carriage return, Line feed, tabs and font of the printer just as in the old days when graphic printers like the laser or the inkjet printer were not in use.
Some of the comments are suggesting simple method of printing from a JTextComponent. Here we do not have to go through the task of creating the graphical printable which is automatically handled by the the JTextComponent, but my question is how to print without creating a graphical printable. Which means that first I select the font to use from the available fonts in my printer say "courier" and then I sent 'A' to the printer and the printer prints 'A' in "courier", then when I sent 'B' to the printer the printer prints 'B' in "courier" and so in till I change the selected font in my printer. Now at the end on the line, I sent \n for linefeed which will advance the roller drum of my printer by one line and \r for carriage return which will bring my printer's printing head to the beginning of the line.
For clarification I do not want to use printable interface, as the print method of this interface basically is used to generate a graphic image using the graphics object that is being passed as parameter to the print method. After this the JVM sends this graphics object to the printer to be printed as an image. This is not what I want. I want to use the line-printer's features of font and other commands.
Homeschooling moms who visit my handwriting printables often ask me if I know of a cursive font or a program that can be used to make handwriting practice sheets. The question varies, but this is what I usually tell the moms who write.
A cursive font named schoolscriptdashed has lines built into it and the letters connect well. It is pictured above in the small image. As of this writing, this font is available free from this web page: =602&page=2 If this link ever breaks, someone please leave a comment here to inform me. I will speak more on using lined fonts in a moment. Or visit donnayoung.org at: SchoolScriptDashed and SS Left Hand
Hi Deb, I know the ones that you are referring to. They are on my computer and the site cd. They were on donnayoung.org until last year. I took down a few things including those printables because of lack of server resources. I have more resources now and I might put them back up someday although that would be months away.
Hi Donna,
I really like the GW Rules of Civility, however we use plain block style printing at our house. Is there any way to convert it to or can you tell me what you used to create it in the first place so that I may try to create it myself? Let me know.
Lois
The issue - using any other font other than "font" (default) in a drawing that can be manipulated via a pen table. I have been told that some "graphic" fonts cannot be changed either in line thickness on the pro-e menu or via pen table. Looking through a lot of the fonts available it seems none of these work. Is this right?
We use Arial, but there's some issues with that, such as the spacing isn't right. I want a specific Engineering font, with serif on a one, capital "I" looking like Roman Numeral one (to distinquish it from a lower case "L", a zero with a slash thru it, and a 7 with the horizontal slash.
Thanks for responses. Just to confirm my initial inquiry is about printing out from Pro-e using a pen table not via pdf. Saving off a pdf is a secondary requirement which basically needs to replicate what I should get when I print out from pro-e.
So, I have a drawing. Current font is "font". I go to print, choose my destination, select the pen table we use. The drawing prints fine with the dimensions much finer thickness than what is shown on the screen. (because the pen table tells it to as the dims are yellow). Perfect for us. Now what I want to do is to update the font - we want to use a more modern looking font. We like the "win_font" font that Pro-e supplies as standard. Now when we print the pen table is ignored, the dimensions are printed out as shown on screen which is too thick for our liking. We cannot change the thickness of the font within the drawing. This seems to apply to every single font supplied other than the standard "font". This is my main problem.
As Martin mentioned win_font is TTF and thickness for such fonts cannot controlled by pen table. In the past this issue was reported to R&D and R&D confirmed that functionality is working as expected (per design of software).
Also still waiting for the Postscript header and footer to be removed from the executable and placed in separate files, identified by config option paths, so they can be repaired and allow setlinecap and setlinejoin to be set to make the Font characters print correctly. Creating the entirely separate direct-to-PDF does not offer the workflow advantages as going via Postscript to Distiller.
And one other thing - Plotted width should be scaled the same as the rest of the output, not left unscaled to make a total mess. And scaling should be left to the output device anyway. If I print a J-Size drawing to B-Size paper I should see a scale factor and a bunch of J-Size coordinates, not everything pre-scaled. Who thought adding extra effort was a good idea? If they've been fired, hire them back and fire them again.
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