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Printing to A4 paper size
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17/01/2019 11:52:43
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01665447
Message ID:
01665511
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>>>>>
>>>>>Aruba uses mostly Letter size because they got used to adopt US standards. Only government offices use A4.
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>>>>>The other islands use mostly A4.
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>>>>I will have to check the design of the reports; I have not done it in many years. I will probably tell the customer that either they pay for the "fixing" of all reports or I will do it, as the need arises.
>>>>
>>>>I was just in Aruba and the invoice they printed for me was on a 8.5x11 paper.
>>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Most printers you can also set that if they receive Letter size to automatically scale for A4. See screenshot of my printer settings.
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>>This is nice. I don't know what type of printer my Euro customer is using. But I will ask them, maybe even show your printer screen shot to them (if you don't mind). So far, they didn't mention this option. Could be that they simply don't know about it.
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>The only drawback to scaling is the danger of planned/intended automatic scanning/ocr reader handling might misfire, if the reader is expecting input fields at certain defined places and will try to "move" the received jpg into a position where most data can be read - unless the reader SW compensates for scaled prints this is a recipe for disaster.
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>Happens -if at all - mostly with gov/bureocratic crap forms, so it is advised to create such reports on/for the gov expected size in the first place

Good point. It does not apply to my case but I will keep it in mind.
Thank you.
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