Windows printing
Pierre Sahores
psahores at easynet.fr
Sat Aug 28 14:04:01 EDT 2004
Jacque,
Did you test in setting the windows specific properties "set the
formatForPrinting of stack to {true | false}" to true ?
Le 28 août 04, à 19:21, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
> I'm getting some weird and frustrating results when printing on
> Windows XP. I have a report that collects data and places it into two
> fields on a card in a printing stack. The two fields are next to each
> other, both are the length of the printing stack, and they simulate a
> 2-column printout. On screen it looks fine. The printing stack has its
> formatForPrinting set to true.
>
> My script fills both fields, prints the card, prints a break, then
> repeats until the data is gone.
>
> Depending partly on the font I use and partly on something I can't
> imagine, printouts are scrambled. Sometimes only one word prints per
> line, which makes Windows think a 7 page printout is about 1200 pages.
> Other times only hex gibberish is printed. Other times, the bottom
> third of the page is left empty and then a blank page prints instead
> after every printed one (i.e., two-thirds of page 1 prints, the a
> blank sheet, then two-thirds of page 2 prints, then a blank sheet,
> etc.)
>
> We have tried different printer drivers with various results, but none
> of them are entirely correct.
>
> This is making me crazy. Does anyone have suggestions? I know I could
> probably format the pages in html and print from a web browser but we
> don't want to.
>
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