Print Preview - Print to File Dialog

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I am having an issue on a Win98 machine on a Novell network. I am using NDPS and when I print using the Print Preview icon from a report, a dialog comes up asking me to save the report as a file????

Thanks

Kevin Cotter
Vyron Schools

 

[mspratt]

Hi Kevin,

Check the printer properties and make sure that the port hasn't been set to FILE:.

Regards,

Mike

 

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Only FoxPro applications are printing to a file when using the print Preview icon from a report. Also, only on this one machine. Other 98 machines are printing OK. When printing to a queue it works fine.

MS Word and Excel are printing fine.

Kevin Cotter
Byron Schools

 

[mspratt]

You could have multiple instances of the printer installed going to different ports. MS Word and Excel could be using a different driver.

Failing that I would reinstall the printer altogether.

Regards,

Mike

 

[Mike Lewis]

Kevin,

Is it possible that your printer driver is set to a "virtual" driver, like a PDF writer or fax driver? If so, VFP would still see it as a printer, but the driver would probably prompt for an output filename.

Try issuing:

? SET("PRINTER",2)

and checking the result.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

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No virtual driver. We reinstalled the printer drivers and no luck. The printer we are having issues with is a lexamark printer, If we change to an HP printer it works fine. However, one machine using the same Lexmark driver works and the other does not.

Kevin Cotter
Byron Schools

 

[mspratt]

1 works, 1 don't, are they using the same OS? Are they both using the printer remotely?

I'm running out of ideas. Have you checked for an updated driver?

Regards,

Mike