OIPI Table Printing (OpenInsight Specific)
At 01 FEB 2002 03:50:57PM Richard Guise wrote:
I may be blind or thick or both (as usual - no comments please!)
Using OIPI Std 4 I've had a couple of problems.
1) If I shade the col heading row (red, grey, etc.), it comes out fine on screen but doesn't print any shading on the printer (which is an Oki 6E mono laser).
Answer must be simple and obvious …
2) Having set LINESTYLE to 1pt and got several lovely lines and boxes, ADDTABLE produces a grid of thin lines. Is there anywhere where one can set the thickness of lines in OIPI tables?
TIA
Richard Guise
At 01 FEB 2002 06:46PM Donald Bakke wrote:
Richard,
2) Having set LINESTYLE to 1pt and got several lovely lines and boxes, ADDTABLE produces a grid of thin lines. Is there anywhere where one can set the thickness of lines in OIPI tables?
Perhaps I'm missing something here. What are "OIPI tables" if not ADDTABLE generated output?
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 02 FEB 2002 03:52PM Tony Splaver wrote:
Hi Richard,
I have seen problems with shading on some printers in the past. As a test, you should use the FILLSTYLE with different shades of grey and then print a RECT to see if it prints OK. Color printers usually work perfectly, but some laser printers have a hard time with the color output from the 16-bit version of the OIPI. Here are a few suggestions for this problem:
1. Try the Professional (32-bit) version of the OIPI.
2. Try using different shades of pure grey (no other colors, like red). Try everything from RGB(10,10,10) to RGB(250,250,250).
The OIPI ADDTABLE message has the line style "hard-coded" to thin (thickness=0), solid, and black. In other words, using the LINESTYLE message has no effect on the ADDTABLE message output. This is for backwards compatibility with the older versions of the OIPI (pre 3.5). I have a few suggestions:
1. You can try using RTF to generate your own tables, but this is non-trivial.
2. Maybe Revelation could add a parameter to the ADDTABLE that would allow the ADDTABLE to use the line settings from the LINESTYLE message.
NOTE: You can set the line width to 0 (instead of 1 point), which will output the thinnest line on the screen and to the printer.
Tony Splaver
At 04 FEB 2002 10:38AM Richard Guise wrote:
Don & Tony
Thanks
1) The printer seems to handle shading from other software OK and I think (but can't be sure off the top of my head) that this includes 16-bit. I'm about to have a go with OIPI Prof and will look out for this point.
2) Yes, by "OIPI tables", I meant tables generated by ADDTABLE. It would, indeed, be very useful to be able to alter the line width used by ADDTABLE.
Richard