Mike. Your idea regarding Notepad got me to experiment and come up with a workaround that works. Since JMRI uses Notepad I changed the font in Notepad to "Cooper Black". Now when the switchlist or manifest list is shown I highlight it, select copy, go to Microsoft word and paste it there. Now when I print the switch list or manifest it prints the dark readable copy of the switchlist as shown on the JMRI screen
Thanks so much for your help and inspiration.
James Allen
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From: Michael Piazza mpiazza2007@... [jmriusers] <jmriusers@...>
To: jmriusers <jmriusers@...>
Sent: Aug 5 9:14 am
Subject: Re: [jmriusers] (OPERATIONS) SWITCHLIST PRINTING
Screen capturing a window gives you the 'graphic' image which is going to
have the actual fonts and colors displayed on the screen. In many cases
the text is not a deep black but a lighter grey or some other color. The
printer is reproducing the 'lightness' of the actual font.
A couple of things you can try. First, bring up the printer properties in
the print dialog and make sure it is printing in black and white. Not
color or gray-scale. Secondly you might be able to modify the text color
and font style in the program itself to give you a true black text in the
display. Third, maybe you can highlight, cut and paste the listing from
the program window into Notepad so you can get actual text which you can
resize and bolden before you print. It is very possible that the position
formatting will get all screwed up though.
Be interested to hear what if anything works for you.
Mike Piazza
On Aug 4, 2017 11:14 PM, "James Allen jcallen1@... [jmriusers]" <
jmriusers@...> wrote:
I have lost much of my sight and find it a bit difficult to read the
switch list and manifest reports printed out by JMRI. i recently purchased
a new printer to address the problem but still the print is somewhat light
even after changing all the print setting on the printer. If I capture a
screen shot of a portion of a switch list using the screen capture program
"JING" the captured switch list printing is black and easy to read. Is
there a modification to Panel Pro for printing darker print? Can one print
through another program such as Excel to try addressing this issue.
James Allen
jcallen1@...
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