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Removing printer-specific info from FRX
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00419141
Message ID:
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>IF an EXE is to be run on different sites, should i be removing the printer-specific info stored in my FRX fields EXPR, TAG, and TAG2 before building the EXE?
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>Always without question?

Almost. :) If the default print settings of most generic printers are good for you, fine.
Even in this case your users may complain that your report is printed fine, but is using the paper from the wrong tray and going to somebody else's output bin, as many big companies have those big multi-optional printers.

>Are there cases when i should not?

You should leave the info in TAG2 field if you are printing to file using, say, PostScript or certain PCL version driver. For example, I had some reports which had to be printed in quantities on the mainframe laser printer which accepts only the print files created with certain versions of printer drivers. If you blank the TAG2 field you will get the report file generated with the default printer driver instead of a special one. Not to mention that this particular driver has to be installed on user's PC.

>Anyone have problems when doing this?

Except special cases like that, no
Nick Neklioudov
Universal Thread Consultant
3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison
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