Printer Selection

• Jun 15, 2011

• #2

ShankarJ

Programmer

Aug 9, 2003

856

Hi Tuz,

IF PRINTERDIALOG('Choose a Prinnter')
MyChosenPrinter = PRINTER{PROPPRINTevice}
END

Read more on PRINTERDIALOG & PRINTERDIALOGA in the help.

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• Jun 15, 2011

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• #3

TuzMwaura

Programmer

Feb 3, 2011

27

KE

Thanks Shankar

Working Perfect now!

Tuz

 

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #4

SalehKiswani

IS-IT--Management

Jul 16, 2011

60

Hello
Can we assign this code to work from inside the preview screen.
I tried to assign to a button inside the preview screen but it worked after colsing the report and run it again.

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #5

ShankarJ

Programmer

Aug 9, 2003

856

Hi!

When a report is generated it creates WMF files (with an extension of TMP in the Windows Temp folder) for all the pages of the report. The WMF file contains formatting specific to the printer that was chosen before generating the report. To change the printer at the preview stage will not work. What 3rd party previewers that offer this feature do is create a new preview using the earlier WMFs as images and is a bit tricky to do. You may need to invest in a 3rd party tool like IceTips Previewer from

http://www.icetips.com.

If you want to insert code to choose a printer i.e. call PRINTERDIALOG(), do that in the OpenReport method - before parent call.

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