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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> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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