Re: Prniting labels (what a surprise!)

[Bob Rasmussen <ras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Carol Gyger wrote:

> Please, please let me know if you find a solution to this.  We have
> struggled with this and finally threw up our hands and stop printing
> diacritics on spine labels.  Figuring this out has been on my "to do"
> list for a very long time.

On the subject of including diacritics (or Russian, or special characters,
or whatever) on spine labels from Millennium or Innopac: There are two
approaches possible.

1. If data is flowing directly from Mill/Inno to the printer (as opposed
to the following), then you are limited to what the printer can do with
its built-in fonts. The best you can do is configure Mill/Inno's printer
definition to use the correct "diac map". The diac map tells Mill/Inno how
to handle various non-Latin characters. III provides various diac maps for
various printers. Trial and error seems to be the appropriate procedure.
Look for a diac map whose name indicates the kind of printer you have.

The best you are likely to obtain is support for the Latin-1 set; that is,
those diacritic/character combinations that are common in Western Europe.

2. Use Print Wizard (our product). Set both Print Wizard and Mill/Inno for
"UTF-8", which is the most powerful, inclusive option. Print Wizard has
access to all the fonts that are installed in Windows, and will select
from them auto-magically. The result is that you can print ALL the
diacritic/character combinations, all the MARC special characters, and
also Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Yi,
Burmese, ... This works on any printer.

Print Wizard also handles the task of formatting the labels into
full-sheet format, if you so choose. Mill/Inno supports only one
full-sheet format; Print Wizard supports virtually any format.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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