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Printing Squished to Upper Corner
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20/11/1996 18:19:53
 
 
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20/11/1996 11:46:02
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00012845
Message ID:
00012935
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35
>There is a lot of discussion regarding problems with using
>PROMPT in VFP 5.0. Supposedly MS is looking into it. ;(
>Also be sure that if reports will be printed using different
>printers that when designing the report in the page setup
>select "Default Print" and not a specific printer.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>>This message is me talking to myself and a reply to the
>>earlier user who was having problems with report text
>>getting squished into upper corner.
>>
>>I can recreate same symptom with a simple quick report
>>and using "REPORT FORM test TO PRINT PROMPT".
>>
>>If I choose the default printer "LJ4" it looks just like preview. If I choose "HP 870" then it prints same image in upper left corner, very much reduced"
>>
>>I assumed my image was graphics related only. Apparently not using the printer that was "default" during report generation can affect all output.

This seems very strange because Windows should adjust the output format not VFP 5.0. Was the report orginally created in VFP 3.0 (or earlier)? I converted my VFP 3.0 project to VFP 5.0 (on the same PC and printer) and get the 'reduced top left' printout. The report display in print preview looks normal. Does anyone know what Microsoft says about this? I have a production .EXE that must run on different client printers (I don't know what they have ahead of time). I suspect Microsoft will say "recreate the report, from scratch, in VFP 5.0. Then include it in the project and re-build (re-compile) the application". I would like to see a convert utility or bug/patch fix.
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