>>>I have this app needs to print out invoices on 1/2 A4 or 1/2 Letter size pre printed continuous sheets. In Win95, I can set up a custom size and with some printers (Epson LQ2500) I can print and also get the sheet to feed up to the tear off.
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>>>In NT4 with service pack 3 this is nigh near impossible. I ave tried almost everything even opening the report as a DBF and deleting the printer formatting code in fields TAG1 and TAG2 to no avail.
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>>>THis is true in FPW26 as well as VFP 5.0a
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>>>Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated as I have almost given up!
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>>If I´m not mistaken, size A5 is 1/2 of size A4.
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>Like I said I TRIED EVERYTHING!
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>Try printing by selecting A5 and see whst happens.
> (a)
>-------------
> |
> 1/2A4 |
> |
> |
>-------------| (b) A4
> |
> A5 |
> (landscape) |
> |
>------------
>
>A5 I know is 1/2 A4 but in portrait is 148cmsx210 LENGTH or if you cut the paper
>above in half and turn it by 90 degrees THAT IS A5. If you try landscape forget it. You only have to try it once and you will know what I mean.
>
>BErnard


Hi,

Did you check if there is a label size defined that is 1/2 A4 ? If so, you may use the label-writer instead of a report.

I didn't find the label I needed for something, nor a correct page size (A4 that is fed horizontally into a wide matrix printer). If tried many things too, and didn't find a way to get it to work.

Because the data was very simple (just some plain text fields) I printed everything directly to the printer using ???. The code you send to the printer with ??? isn't intercepted by Windows, so you are not limited to a page size. The only problem with this is that you have to send all the printer commands yourself (bold, linefeed, formfeed, ...).

Hope this helps ...