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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