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System Variable for Total No. of Pages?
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00507933
Message ID:
00508070
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>>Chuck,
>>
>>The accepted way is to print the report first to a file, get the total pages, then print to paper. So if you use a variable TotalPages it your report it would look like this:
>>
REPORT FORM MyReport to FILE TempRept.prn NOCONSOLE
>>TotalPages = _PageNo
>>DELETE FILE TempRept.prn
>>REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT NOCONSOLE
>>
>>It doesn't take long to print to the file and it gets you the right number of pages.
>
>To add to this suggestion ... if you want to use the PROMPT clause so the user can choose the printer instead of going to the default printer, make sure you do it this way instead:
>
>>
>=SYS(1037)
>REPORT FORM MyReport to FILE TempRept.prn NOCONSOLE
>TotalPages = _PageNo
>DELETE FILE TempRept.prn
>REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT NOCONSOLE
>
>
>Otherwise, you may have an issue with the printable area being different between the default printer and the one chosen by the user. That could potentially mean that the "TO FILE" report would have a slightly different page count than the "TO PRINT" report because the number of lines that can fit on the page may be slightly different.
>
>Cathy

Duly noted and implemented... that could've been a detail that would have the potential to have driven me crazy sooner or later.

Thanks a Lot,
Chuck
Chuck Henry
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