Tracy,
Thanks for your help and I think , the ability to set up forms in Xp, should solve my problem.

As to yours:-

I noticed one of the replies indicated that these forms are set up in the registry. If your main program did somethiung like the following:


If MySpecial_Form exists in the registry
Dont do anything
Else
Add My Form to the registry
Endif

(I have seen utiities that can update the Registry but have not used any of them)

I'd be interested to know if this, or any other method, solves your problem.

Regards,

Gerard









>Actually, that was answered in another message in this thread. It is done under settings, printers, file, server options. You have to create a new formsize and that works in Windows 2K and Windows XP. The problem is that I need to do it programmatically from within VFP during an install or upgrade so the form exists on all machines that run my app. We're talking anywhere from 700-1200 systems or more where the app is installed via the net or from a cd and I need to automate creating the formsize somehow. There must be a way!
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>>Tracy,
>>What I said about Xp I think also applies to Win2000 (I had forgotten )
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>>In Win 98, when you went into the Printer Driver , and selected Paper Size, there was usually Letter, A4, Us Std Fanfold but also an option called User Defined, where you could specify both the Height and the width.
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>>I usually went in here and defined a new printer with the exact dimensions that I wanted. I then pointed the FRX to this and it worked fine.
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>>But now , In Xp (and 2000) the option for User defined Size is gone !!
>>I could not face at this stage going back to @ say ....surely there must be another way !!!!
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>>>Under W2k were you printing reports on special size paper using the VFP report generator? Or were you using ?? or @...says to accomplish the printing? I have had to use ?? or @...says to print to special sized paper in w2k so I would be interested in knowing your solution in Windows 2000. It is my understanding that in Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows XP (all NT really) that the form has to be setup in windows as a pagesize in order to do this.
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>>>Tracy
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>>>>Has anybody a solution to this probelm ?
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>>>>Our clients use Dot Matrix printers a lot for printing forms (e.g. Multiple part Invoices, Delivery dockets etc (Different clours on each part)
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>>>>Up to Win XP, the Printer Drivers worked because there was always an option within the Printer driver called 'Form Depth'. So if a form was 6 inches, a Printer could be set up for this.
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>>>>I cant find this anywhere now in XP, with any of the printer drivers.
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>>>>Any help appreciated.
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>>>>Regards,
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>>>>Gerard