Laser printed tables with PostScript
If your laser printer recognizes the PostScript language, you can produce Quantum tables in this format by running a postprocessor, pstab, after the standard Quantum run. This provides:
▪more flexible formatting capabilities for row text and column headings
▪access to a wide range of different fonts
▪the ability to print pound signs
▪the ability to print logos.
The Quantum commands required for these facilities are described below.
The fonts which are used for printing Quantum tables on a laser printer are usually proportionally spaced. This means that each character is printed in the minimum amount of space required; so the letter ‘i’ takes up less space on a line than the letter ‘m’. In axes where you define the column headings with g statements, or where you lay out the row text in a particular way, the use of proportional fonts means that the printed output will not look the same as the layouts in your Quantum program. It is therefore necessary to insert some additional characters in these texts to define how they should appear on the laser-printed output.
The hitch and squeeze facility is not available for PostScript tables.
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