Unwanted repeating pages

[fumbles]

Hi all,

I am converting a price tag generation app for our retail furniture application. The report(tag) has a bitmap, several text fields in mixed fonts and two fields that catch variables made up of blocks of text that are created by the program before it prints. myvar= field+” “+field+…+chr(13), etc.) These are all smaller than the space on the tag and are directed to stretchable text boxes.

The problem is when I direct the tag(report) to various Laserjets with the ‘prompt’ keyword, extra copies will print. If I accept the “all” button for the pages setup within the print dialog, the tag will print as many of the one page report as I allow. In order to get only one page I have to select "pages 1 to 1". Unfortunately, the default is 1 to 65534. I am convinced that if I let it, it would print all 65534 of them.

Does anyone have any insight into this behavior or a way of getting the “pages” range to default to 1 to 1?

Thanks for your help.

Steve

 

[Mike Gagnon]

You could create a custom print dialog, that way you can control all aspects of the printer.

 

[fumbles]

Thanks for the response.

I am considering that, I just hate to reinvent the wheel if there's another way or if there is a way I can redo the report to get rid the "extra pages" behavior. It only occurrs on this one report type. If I remove the text boxes containing the variable with the block of text, it will print normally. But I have used this technique a lot over the years and trhis is the first time I have hit this behavior.

Steve

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Is it possible that your stretchable textbox exceeds the lenght of you page 1 ?

 

[Guest_imported]

Use Report form [Your Report] To Print range 1,1