>>>>I have a client who is a subcontractor for a major phone company. In order to invoice the phone company, my client has to print on the phone company's forms.
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>>>>Given that, and the fact that their forms are 11" by 8-1/2" (with the holes on the 8-1/2" side), I'm having a hard time getting a good print orientation.
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>>>>First, I had to tell Fox that I had my client's wide-carriage printer so it would give me more options (under File/Page Setup) than it gave me on my little desk jet. Second, I told it to go Letter Transverse, which I thought meant 11 x 8-1/2, but it looked like it reverted to regular letter. Then, I tried User Defined Setup. But that yielded extremely strange, though downright humorous, results.
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>>>>Does anyone know what Transverse means? Do you know how to use User Define Setup to make it go 11 x 8-1/2? Barring that, what can I do to make it 11 x 8-1/2?
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>>>>Thanx in advance,
>>>>JR
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>>>will the printer print landscape (instead of portrait)?
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>>Yes, it will, but then the user wouldn't be able to use the continuous-feed holes. They'd have to tear off each page and manually feed them, one at a time.
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>>Also, I tried designing with landscape in mind, then telling it to print portrait. Unfortunately, it thinks it's working with an 11" piece of paper and will form-feed accordingly.
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>>Any additional help will be greatly appreciated! Thanx,
>>JR
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>dot-matrix printer? if you tell it landscape, will it 'rotate' the form and print sideways instead of taking the edge off to print normal but wider?

If you design it in landscape, it will assume it's working with a form which is 11" in LENGTH, and expect you to put the paper in the regular way (portrait), so that it will print landscape on it. If you design in landscape, then tell the printer to print in portrait, it assumes 11" again it prints the footer and form feeds accordingly. FYI, I called the $95/issue Tech Support number and they said that the only thing I could do would be to set up a Generic/Text-Only printer and do an @...say prg or method. Sounds like a giant step backwards to me, especially since it looks like you should be able to create your own size form, but the User Defined option doesn't appear functional. Unfortunately, though, because of deadlines, I've had to start programming the @...say method into my form, using _plength and everything. The kicker is, they don't even show the definition for _plength (or any of its kin) in the help any more. They say it's provided for backwards-compatibility, and we're to use the report generator instead! I wouldn't mind all of this if tech support admitted that they have a problem, but they don't, as usual. I've found 3 bugs (which they ended up documenting in the KB) for them in the last 2 years, and they have really interesting ways of accepting defeat. . . They're not backing down on this one. They say it's an operating system limitation (SO WHO MAKES THE OS??? YEP! MS!!!)

JR