OK....I've been working on this some more. I did follow your suggestions, Corey, and I made some progress in seeing the text when I added "valign="top". The only problem with this now was that when I did the text rotation, it expanded the cell horizontally, as if the text were going in the original direction. Also, the text rotation was only accomplished in the viewer; when I went to Print Preview, it showed the original orientation. So I guess I'm still not doing something correctly. I've put this aside for now to continue to work on my receipt template, and for the most part (aside from the text rotation issue), I've got it to where I like it.
Now here's the rub: I worked on my template file, tweaking it here and there, and finally printed it out directly from the Receipts folder, where TD sends them when they are created at buyin. When I printed them out from the Receipts folder, I would hit the Print dialogue, and everything was fine. Then I figured it was time to try it out directly from TD; I did a buyin, hit the Print dialogue that pops up there, but when I hit Print this time, the reciept prints out in a drastically smaller form, about one-quarter the size of the original. I checked the printer settings, and still the same thing happens, a much smaller version of my receipt is printed. It also changes my font from Ariel to New Times.
Here's what I did to check it out:
1. I did another buyin; when the Print dialogue pops up, this time I went directly to the Receipts folder and opened the receipt that was sent there. I did the print preview, checked my print settings for size and whatnot, pushed print, and all is well. When I went back to the original Print dialogue, I checked printer settings there (everything seemed to be in place), pushed print, and the small version printed out again.
2. I changed to receipt template to another version that I made earlier; same story. Then I went to your default receipt template, and again the same thing.
3. I repeated this exercise on 3 different printers; everything happens the same.
Am I doing something wrong? Have you heard of this before, and if so, any suggestions on how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(P.S. I don't know of anyone else who is testing out this feature. If you are, let me know how it's going for you.)