said:
>really big inches]) and something I've never heard of called TWIPS which
>are 1/10 of a point.
TWIPS are a typesetting unit of 1/1440 inch. The references you found are
correct. You will also eventually run across dialog units. These are
relative to the current font size and are intended to allow dialogs to be
designed with resolution independent code. A horizontal dialog unit is
1/4 the average character width and 1/8 the average character height.
>If the prtgraph GoTo command lets me set X and Y by TWIPS then I can kern
>by sending a single character, then sending a GoTo to move the X position
>slightly, and repeat for every character in the line. Hey, that's what I
>do when I write PCL and it works fine.
This is how the GPI does it under the covers. If the library supports it
you should be able to ask it to do most of the kerning for you. The fonts
contain default kerning tables.
Regards,
Steven
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