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How do you set a report to print on 11 by 17 paper?
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25/09/2020 15:52:15
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01676242
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01676246
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>>Hi,
>>
>>A customers wants me to create a report that will print on 11 by 17 (inches) paper in landscape format. I don't seem to be able to find this in the designer.
>>
>>Can it be done? If yes, how?
>>
>>TIA
>
>Hi, Dmitry,
>
>Go to Settings in your Windows system, select a capable printer, choose printing preferences, add a custom paper of the size you need (I used a PDF printer, for that). The new size will be available in the page setup of the Report editor (you may choose portrait and landscape at your will).
>
>Required update: the above solution would apply if your customer could replicate exactly the identification of the new custom paper size.
>
>A more general solution is to fill (by hand or programmatically) the first "Expr" field of the report (opened as a table) with the following content:
>
>ORIENTATION=1
>COLOR=2
>PAPERLENGTH=4318
>PAPERWIDTH=2794
>
Antonio,

Thank you very much!

Question, how did you determine that 4318 is 17" and 2794 is 11"?
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