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Jules wrote:
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:19:13 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
It wasnt flashy graphics, Just a delivery note.


Well what on earth do you need in a delivery note that requires anything
other than plain text and a few line breaks?


Having recently been involved in just that (delivery notes plus
invoices, credit notes, etc.) the answer is 'more'!

Logo.
Boxes.
Lines - vertical and horizontal.

Trying to do this in plain text is not so easy. For a start, monospaced
fonts take far more space than proportional (at an approximately similar
height). But as soon as you use proportional fonts alignment becomes far
more difficult.

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