Windows printing

Pierre Sahores psahores at easynet.fr
Sat Aug 28 19:11:14 EDT 2004


Le 29 août 04, à 00:37, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> On 8/28/04 5:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
>> On 8/28/04 1:04 PM, "Pierre Sahores" <psahores at easynet.fr> wrote:
>>>> We have tried different printer drivers with various results, but 
>>>> none
>>>> of them are entirely correct.
>> I hate to ask, but did you try different *printers*? Perhaps its an 
>> anomaly
>> of the printer you're trying to print to?
>
> Four.  Now I am getting crashes too. I don't know if that's because 
> I'm on Virtual PC. I don't have time to track it down.

If that can help to see if the problem has to do with Virtual PC, just 
send the stack... I have a Vaio laptop with XP Home and a Canon inkjet 
S300 installed there ;-!
>
> I seem to have better luck, at least with screen display, when the 
> formatForPrinting is false. That makes sense, and is recorded in the 
> docs. So I set it to false to gather and calculate how much text goes 
> in each field. It looks fine on screen. But when I set the 
> formatForPrinting to true just before printing the page, the text 
> spreads out with one word per line and three or four empty lines 
> between each word. When I go ahead and print it, I lose the text 
> completely. My 7 page printout has been generating hundreds of empty 
> pages with no text at all.
>
> If I leave the formatForPrinting set to false before sending to the 
> printer, I get the same results. Or at least, I have been, the last 
> hour or so.
>
> This is really a pretty simple thing I'm asking Rev to do: print a 
> page with 2 fields of text, repeatedly, until the data is gone. It 
> works fine on Mac. I cannot get anything to print on XP. I have tried 
> both setting the field fonts, and leaving the entire font hierarchy 
> empty; neither helps.
>
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