>>I have a 3-4 page report to produce. I use the report generator for the first page--its format is such that it lends itself to a generated report. The remaining pages, however, cannot be so generated, so I have hard-coded everything after the first page.
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>>My problem is this: no matter what type of print settings I try, the remaining pages print grayed out, i.e., a gray bar over every printed character. I have tried every printer setting I can think of. My latest attempt at setting up the printer looks like this:
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>>SET PRINTER FONT "Arial", 8 STYLE 'N'
>>SET DEVICE TO PRINT
>>SET PRINT ON
>>SET CONSOLE OFF
>>SET PRINTER TO DEFAULT
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>>All of my printing is done with @...SAY's to HP-compatible laser printers. The print is grayed over on my hand coded report even if I comment out the call to the FRX. It happens on my printer and on every printer at my client's office. I am doing nothing prior to setting up the printer except dimensioning and filling an array and opening tables. Any ideas out there??
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>>HELP!!!
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>>TIA.
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>>John
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>I've done similar things before. What you need to do is "Generate" your report data to a DBF. Each record in the DBF will be a line on your report.
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>Craig

Craig:

Since posting this message, I found an article in MS Knowledge Base on exactly this problem. Turns out it is a known VFP bug from 3.0 days that perseveres. The article ID is Q154170. It gives a work-around that truly works. You'd never guess the source of the problem: the BackgroundColor of the window from which the prg is invoked . . . .

Thanks for kicking in.

John