setTextSize(2,2); too big #388
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Have you tried setTextSize(1, 2) or setTextSize(2, 1)? I find that the double height OR double width alone is some times enough.
I have tried. Double height of way too tall to list all of the items. The perfect would really be half point.
Unfortunately, nothing like this is possible in native ESC/POS. The best you could do is render system fonts as small pictures, and print those instead.
There is one trick that I'll suggest though: you can double FONT B instead, which is slightly smaller (Exact specs depend on your printer, check the manual)
require __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
use Mike42\Escpos\Printer;
use Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors\FilePrintConnector;
$connector = new FilePrintConnector("php://stdout");
$printer = new Printer($connector);
/* Initialize */
$printer -> initialize();
title($printer, "Font A sizes\n");
$printer -> setFont(Printer::FONT_A);
$printer -> setTextSize(1, 1);
$printer -> text("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n");
$printer -> setTextSize(2, 2);
$printer -> text("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n");
title($printer, "Font B sizes\n");
$printer -> setFont(Printer::FONT_B);
$printer -> setTextSize(1, 1);
$printer -> text("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n");
$printer -> setTextSize(2, 2);
$printer -> text("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n");
$printer -> cut();
$printer -> close();
function title(Printer $printer, $text)
{
$printer -> selectPrintMode(Printer::MODE_EMPHASIZED);
$printer -> text("\n" . $text);
$printer -> selectPrintMode(); // Reset
}As printed on an Epson TM-T20:
I find the default font size on a Epson TM-T88V a little bit small for older people to read but if I set the font size to 2x then it is a way too big. What would be the best way to have a size inbetween?