Hi Cyrus,

You need to abandon the old way of printing in FP DOS.

I just took on a project where they have some 200+ reports (none of which were written with the report writer and all of which were sending formatting codes directly to the printer -Eeeeeek!).

Basically, what I did was:

1) Re-Direct the output to a temp file.

set device to FILE(GETENV("TEMP")+'\prtemp.txt')

2) STRTRAN the page end marker to a CSS2 PAGEBREAK style

*-- closes the temp file
set device to screen

*-- shows print dialog
m.junk=FILETOSTR(GETENV('TEMP')+'\prtemp.txt')
m.junk=STRTRAN(m.duh,CHR(12),CHR(13)+'<DIV CLASS="PAGEBREAK"></DIV>'+CHR(13))

3) I then sucked the text file into an HTML wrapper and instanced a browser object to preview/print the report.

It worked like a charm!

Thank God! I didn't have to rewrite those reports. I would have gone literally nuts!!!


Good luck!!

If you want the details, let me know.

Hugh