printing font scale issues

[Duane Clark]

Duane Clark wrote:
> 
> Dan Engel wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Wine-20010510 to run Quickbooks.  Printing seems to work okay, as
> > long as I use the "default" forms.
> >
> > When I try to modify the defaults, by changing the fonts on parts of forms,
> > the printed result is that the font is tiny.  For example, 18-pt Helvetica
> > looks printed out like 4-point Helvetica (or maybe even smaller!)
> >
> > Is there something in the configuration that I missed, perhaps, about
> > printer fonts?  I have pointers to the afm directories (and have tried
> > several different--both those that came with my system, Mandrake 7.2, and
> > those I downloaded from Adobe.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dan Engel
> 
> I recently spent a day or so fighting with fonts. I had an application
> that was trying to use Helvetica as a scaled (and sometimes rotated)
> font. Depending on the scale level, I would get a very small helvetica
> font, or sometimes a small italic helvetica, not to mention rotation
> never worked.

Oops, my bad. You clearly stated printed fonts. I was obviously talking
about screen fonts, sorry.

Duane