Windows printing

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Sun Aug 29 17:10:43 EDT 2004


On 28 Aug 2004, at 23:37, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I found using "answer printer" *before* setting the formatForPrinting 
to true to produce more reliable results. Without doing this, I was 
getting various problems similar to what you describe. (This was with 
the 2.5 engine. Haven't tested since then.)

Dave



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