Question:

What is the secret formulae for which ATE senses that a document requires to be compressed when auto-pitch is active?

Reason im asking is that i have a form, that internally has a max width of 79, yet in cases it will auto pitch to a compressed font.

Thanks!

The secret formula is, well, secret. But in roughly speaking, the idea is to scan the first 100 lines of the printfile to see what the longest line is. (Not counting trailing blanks or //GDI commands.) If that length is greater than the first parameter to the CPP=x,y command, then it should set the pitch to y (compressed) value.

If you can capture a copy of the offending printfile, it should be easy enough to identify what the problem is. (If necessary send it to me, along with the printer init file.)

Will do.

Thanks for the info.

Problem found:

The difference in the print was not related to the auto-pitch after all, but to the fact that the same form was sometime being sent out using GDI and sometimes using PASSTHRU, accounting for the difference in fonts/size.

I have made changes to account for the above... thanx for the input.