>I have reports that I created without the report designer. Some of them must be printed in landscape mode. If I use Getprinter(), it doesn't allow the user to select Portrait or Landscape. If I add a form prior to the Printer dialogue where I allow the user to select Landscape, and then I send the proper PCL sequence, Windows ignores it and it prints in Portait anyway.
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>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks.
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>Chaim Hochman

Portrait and Landscape is interesting to deal with, but can be done. The procedure I use is this (it may not be the best way, but it is the one that has worked for us).

First you create a report and define portrait or landscape in the report while your creating it or editing it.

Then save the report as normal.

Before you create a exe or app for distribution you need to open the report file as tables and remove some data from fields. The code I use is:

ADIR(laReportArray,'*.FRX')

FOR i = 1 To ALEN(laReportArray,1)
  SELECT 0
  USE laReportArray[i,1] ALIAS FixReport
  LOCATE FOR Objtype = 1 AND Objcode = 53
  REPLACE FixReport.Tag WITH ""
  REPLACE FixReport.Tag2 WITH ""
  USE
ENDFOR

The code will remove any reference to your printer, the one that was active when you edited the report or added the report. But the code does not touch the portrait or landscape code in the table.

So what I get is a exe that when the user asks to print a report they can choose what ever they want as a printer and the report remembers the pape mode.

I hope this is what you were getting at...