I opened Notepad's help topics and then searched for "fonts". That returned a long listing of the use of the word "fonts". One of which said: "To specify font settings for your printer..."
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.
2. Right-click the icon for the printer you are using, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Fonts tab, and then specify the settings you want.
When I attempted the procedure, there was no Fonts tab listed in my printer's properties.... Maybe you have one, I feel cheated.
1. comment about designating headers (&f) and footers and page numbers (page &up) under Notepad's File|Page Setup; and
2. details on establishing fonts in the Edit|Set Font. Interestingly here, the Notepad defaults seem to be "font/fixedsys, style/regular, size/12,script/western". This would imply that your email resets these defaults, or that you do not have them at present.
I have been in there and my properties have several tabs with some settings but none have anything to say about fonts. I'm not so lucky. I also checked to be sure the Notepad font was accurate and it was.
It is odd that the email "attachments" (which open in Notepad) print the top line and page # on the bottom in the proper default font and the all of the rest is in bold. The font looks right (a little hard to tell the thinner style with the chunky bold). I spent a couple of hours doing forum searches on this but only a couple had my exact issue and they had no conclusions. : (
Another program couldn't be contolling it right? Otherwise the "whole attachment" would print bold and not have the proper font for the header (Store Name & Order #) and the page number (1) on the footer in the proper font. These are simply opening the Notepad attachment and hitting file>print like the last 4 yrs.?????
You know you might be right about the email OL-express, the attachment doesn't have the header or footer displayed upon opening and viewing, they have always showed up AFTER printing the attachment??????
Thank you for your efforts..any other ideas are most welcome....I'm printing in microscopic font size now, I can't afford the ink cartridges.. ; )
I am set at Fixsys 12 regular western in Notepad (turned down to 9 for ink savings)
I changed it back to 12 again, and then copied and pasted an attachment from Notepad to Wordpad (WordPad was already set at Times Roman New 12 font, and printed normally. I set Wordpad's fonts to Fixsys 12 (normal Notepad default)...it said "this is a screen font and will be matched to the closest font" and printed exactly the same as Notepad in very small 9 font or larger 12, but defaulted to Times New Roman 12 or 9, depending on my Fixsys font choices. You might have to read this twice as it's very east to do here but harder to type out & explain. Your help is greatly appreciated though!
I noticed that you listed your operating system as
Win98, not Win98 SE. Perhaps there is some Hewlett Packard incompatibility between 98 and 98SE fonts. Have you checked the printer download category for the current drivers for the Dell XPS T500 with the HP 882C?
If it is not something like that, then it seems to me that you should check your email provider's settings next, to see if there is something controlling the fonts.
Another target for investigation would be the coding of the original information that's going into the email attachment, though that would seem unlikely because
Why would anyone care how a user printed out his own personal copy?
I have Win98 and the same printer and same text attachments for 5 yrs. One day they just started printing in bold. The domains' email forward set-ups, are the same, as the head and page number are in the default Notepad font (Fixdsys 12 western) but the body is a chunky bold font. I thought perhaps there might be something wrong with my Win OS fonts. Do you know if they can be re-built at Windows update?
Two thing were happening around the time of all this.
1. My wife and son were experimenting with fancy fonts in Works for wedding invites, labels etc. but we looked in Works and the fonts were clear to designate for whatever use, with no default set, that we could find.
2. The other was that I downloaded some very large critical updates for my browser 6.01 SP, actually I downloaded about all of them except one for networks which I don't have.
I have heard some updates can mess you up? Not sure though? As I mentioned my printer properties offered no opportunity for font adjusting...no tabs, no 'advanced" sections to open possibilities, nothing.
I'm about done with it, I am out of options I think.
Have you ever tried changing the order forms to open with
Works rather than Notepad?
The only reason I ask this is because there are a greater number of font-issues discussed under the "Works Index" than there are in Notepad's Help. For example headers and footers (i.e.
&f, &up) are discussed, or "fonts-clearing formatting", or "fonts-printer capabilities", etc.--all of these subjects seem to be issues that center around our discussion. Inaddition, the Works toolbar contains the
B button which emphasises whether or not something is bold by whether the
B is shaded. Perhaps it is possible that your order forms are being defaulted to print in the Works category "Invoice", rather than in Notepad--or, at a bare minimum, perhaps your
B button is shaded and you are not aware of it.
However you look at this, I believe that you will find the many discussions under the heading "fonts" in the Works Index worthwhile reading.
cz, I am out of ideas; and I do not believe that a Windows Update has much to do with this, otherwise you would be seeing more about it, probably. Good luck.
zool
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September 9th, 2004 16:00
Maybe this will help, maybe it wont.
I opened Notepad's help topics and then searched for "fonts". That returned a long listing of the use of the word "fonts". One of which said: "To specify font settings for your printer..."
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.
2. Right-click the icon for the printer you are using, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Fonts tab, and then specify the settings you want.
When I attempted the procedure, there was no Fonts tab listed in my printer's properties.... Maybe you have one, I feel cheated.
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I also found:
1. comment about designating headers (&f) and footers and page numbers (page &up) under Notepad's File|Page Setup; and
2. details on establishing fonts in the Edit|Set Font. Interestingly here, the Notepad defaults seem to be "font/fixedsys, style/regular, size/12,script/western". This would imply that your email resets these defaults, or that you do not have them at present.
cz
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September 10th, 2004 06:00
Thank you Zool!
I have been in there and my properties have several tabs with some settings but none have anything to say about fonts. I'm not so lucky. I also checked to be sure the Notepad font was accurate and it was.
It is odd that the email "attachments" (which open in Notepad) print the top line and page # on the bottom in the proper default font and the all of the rest is in bold. The font looks right (a little hard to tell the thinner style with the chunky bold). I spent a couple of hours doing forum searches on this but only a couple had my exact issue and they had no conclusions. : (
Another program couldn't be contolling it right? Otherwise the "whole attachment" would print bold and not have the proper font for the header (Store Name & Order #) and the page number (1) on the footer in the proper font. These are simply opening the Notepad attachment and hitting file>print like the last 4 yrs.?????
You know you might be right about the email OL-express, the attachment doesn't have the header or footer displayed upon opening and viewing, they have always showed up AFTER printing the attachment??????
Thank you for your efforts..any other ideas are most welcome....I'm printing in microscopic font size now, I can't afford the ink cartridges.. ; )
Chuck
zool
78 Posts
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September 10th, 2004 12:00
Try printing one of your attachments with Word Pad. But check the Font settings first.
BTW what font do you use for Notepad? Maybe that is the problem.
zool
cz
31 Posts
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September 10th, 2004 23:00
Hi Zool,
I am set at Fixsys 12 regular western in Notepad (turned down to 9 for ink savings)
I changed it back to 12 again, and then copied and pasted an attachment from Notepad to Wordpad (WordPad was already set at Times Roman New 12 font, and printed normally. I set Wordpad's fonts to Fixsys 12 (normal Notepad default)...it said "this is a screen font and will be matched to the closest font" and printed exactly the same as Notepad in very small 9 font or larger 12, but defaulted to Times New Roman 12 or 9, depending on my Fixsys font choices. You might have to read this twice as it's very east to do here but harder to type out & explain. Your help is greatly appreciated though!
Thanks,
Chuck
zool
78 Posts
0
September 11th, 2004 15:00
I noticed that you listed your operating system as Win98, not Win98 SE. Perhaps there is some Hewlett Packard incompatibility between 98 and 98SE fonts. Have you checked the printer download category for the current drivers for the Dell XPS T500 with the HP 882C?
If it is not something like that, then it seems to me that you should check your email provider's settings next, to see if there is something controlling the fonts.
Another target for investigation would be the coding of the original information that's going into the email attachment, though that would seem unlikely because Why would anyone care how a user printed out his own personal copy?
zool
cz
31 Posts
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September 12th, 2004 03:00
Hi again Zool,
I have Win98 and the same printer and same text attachments for 5 yrs. One day they just started printing in bold. The domains' email forward set-ups, are the same, as the head and page number are in the default Notepad font (Fixdsys 12 western) but the body is a chunky bold font. I thought perhaps there might be something wrong with my Win OS fonts. Do you know if they can be re-built at Windows update?
Two thing were happening around the time of all this.
1. My wife and son were experimenting with fancy fonts in Works for wedding invites, labels etc. but we looked in Works and the fonts were clear to designate for whatever use, with no default set, that we could find.
2. The other was that I downloaded some very large critical updates for my browser 6.01 SP, actually I downloaded about all of them except one for networks which I don't have.
I have heard some updates can mess you up? Not sure though? As I mentioned my printer properties offered no opportunity for font adjusting...no tabs, no 'advanced" sections to open possibilities, nothing.
I'm about done with it, I am out of options I think.
Thnks for your help!
Chuck
zool
78 Posts
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September 12th, 2004 13:00
Have you ever tried changing the order forms to open with Works rather than Notepad?
The only reason I ask this is because there are a greater number of font-issues discussed under the "Works Index" than there are in Notepad's Help. For example headers and footers (i.e. &f, &up) are discussed, or "fonts-clearing formatting", or "fonts-printer capabilities", etc.--all of these subjects seem to be issues that center around our discussion. Inaddition, the Works toolbar contains the B button which emphasises whether or not something is bold by whether the B is shaded. Perhaps it is possible that your order forms are being defaulted to print in the Works category "Invoice", rather than in Notepad--or, at a bare minimum, perhaps your B button is shaded and you are not aware of it.
However you look at this, I believe that you will find the many discussions under the heading "fonts" in the Works Index worthwhile reading.
cz, I am out of ideas; and I do not believe that a Windows Update has much to do with this, otherwise you would be seeing more about it, probably. Good luck.
zool