Layout settings

Layout tab

Spacing

Spacing settings are used for two purposes: during LU1 print jobs to tell the emulation when to insert form feeds and during font auto-sizing to instruct the printer emulator how to scale the font to fit the page:

• Lines Per Page: Tells the emulation or font auto-sizing how long the page is in lines.
• Lines Per Inch: Sets the number of lines per inch to set for the printed output if not specified by the host or overridden by the user.
• Characters Per Line: Sets the maximum characters printed on a line before the emulator inserts a carriage return/line feed.
• Characters Per Inch: Sets font size based on characters per inch.
  Note: Characters per inch combined with lines per inch determines how many characters will fit on a line and how many lines to a printed page.
• Double Space Lines: If checked, BlueZone double spaces between lines when printing.

Presentation

• Print Quality: Select Draft mode or Near Letter Quality mode when in Pass Through Mode using a printer definition file that supports draft or NLQ modes.
• Duplex Mode: Select to control single or double-sided printing. Only works in Windows API mode.

Print Scaling

• Scale Factor: This edit box allows enlarging or reducing the printed output by the selected percentage. Only works in Windows API mode.
• Auto-Size Fonts to fit the Paper Size: If checked, BlueZone fits the font to the page based on the spacing settings set by the host or set by the emulator.
• Scale Fonts to Closest Point Size: This feature is useful when auto-sizing fonts yields different font sizes for normal and bold text.

Tip: In Windows API mode, the auto-size font option scales to fit the page exactly. In Pass through mode, a printer definition file is required, and will scale to the nearest fixed font size supported by the printer.