| The trend print functions were orignally
optimized for 300 DPI printers and they may not print out as well
for other resolution printers. The trend printout functions have
been improved in version 3.20 and later and should resolve most of
these limitiatations.
You can also improve the optimization of the trend printout by
making the following modifications to the trend printout
functions.
There is one function called TrnPlot written in cicode library
file GRAPH.CI in the INCLUDE project that does the printing
operation. TrnPrint function, which is another function written in
cicode that resides in ZOOM.CI file in the INCLUDE project, calls
TrnPlot function to print trends. So, it seems that modifying
TrnPlot function will resolve the resolution problem. Although this
is theoretically correct we suggest that you follow the steps below
as INCLUDE project will be updated with a new installation which
will override all user changes.
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Copy TrnPlot from
INCLUDE project to your project and rename the one in your project
to TrnPlotEx.
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| 2)
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Copy TrnPrint from
INCLUDE project to your project and rename the one in your project
to TrnPrintEx.
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| 3)
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Copy the trend
templates you are using from INCLUDE project and rename your
copies.i.e copy STANDARD type singletrend template to your project
and rename it to singletrendex
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| 4)
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Modify the new
singletrendex template so that the button that activates trend
printing now calls TrnPrintEx instead of TrnPrint function.
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Now you are ready to modify the TrnPrintEx and TrnPlotEx
functions:
Modifications to the TrnPrintEx
function:
- Change the call to TrnPlot to TrnPlotEx.
Modifications to the TrnPlotEx
function:
- Citect versions of 3.10 or earlier (4.00 which is 32bit
included). There are three fonts used in this function :
GraphColour, GraphColourBig and GraphColourSmall. Create three new
fonts (in the Fonts form in your project) GraphColourEx,
GraphColourBigEx, GraphColourSmallEx that will look proportinally
right in your resolution. Use these fonts for hFont, hBigFont and
hSmallFont.
i.e hFont =
DspFontHnd("GraphColourEx");
The yResolution argument to this function is obtained by calling
:
yRes = PlotInfo(hPlot,VERTRES,"");
If this function is not returning the correct resolution then
you can assign it yourself as you know the resolution of your
printer, ie:
yRes = 900;
If required you can also change calculation of all variables
that are calculated based on xPage and/or yPage so that they will
be proportional in your resolution.
- Citect versions of 3.20 or later ( or later than 4.00 in 32
bit)
There are three fonts that are generated inside the _TrnGetFonts
local function. The yResolution argument to this function is
obtained by calling :
yRes = PlotInfo(hPlot,VERTRES,"");
If this function is not returning the correct resolution then
you can assign it yourself as you know the resolution of your
printer, ie:
yRes = 900;
Inside the _TrnGetFonts function the SizeFontSmall, SizeFontBig
and SizeFontNormal can be set to font heights that will be suitable
for your printer.
If required you can also change calculation of all variables
that are calculated based on xPage and/or yPage so that they will
be proportional in your resolution.
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