Printout never same on different printers

rbuser

While printing my report on my LaserJet III everything works fine, on my
DeskJet 610C the footer and part of the last detail section doesn't print.
Printing the report at my customers LaserJet V parts of the left side of the
report are missing and so on. Different results on different printers.
Margins differ depending on printer.

Anybody has any ideas how to make the report print in the same way
regardless of printer?

Thanks,
Lars.

digitalmetaphors

You need to set the margins to be the largest one of all the printers. Then
this same report will use the same margins for every one printed.

What version of RB is this report running with? In RB 7 it should regenerate
the report correctly when printing to different printers. This was a bug in
RB 6.03 which has been fixed in RB 7.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I'm running version 6.03. I assume then there's no bug fix in version 6 for
this?

digitalmetaphors

When I say regenerate, I mean it will dump the report output pages when
selecting a different printer to print to. The report will not reposition
the controls in the layout for the best fit given the selected printer.
You'll have to setup the report to print best for each printer. One approach
is to increase the margins to account for the printer with the largest
unprintable area.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

There is no patch available since the fix is included in RB 7. You'll have
to upgrade to RB 7 to get the fix.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

This particular report is developed using Delphi-4, does version 7 come for
Delphi-4?

Lars.

digitalmetaphors

RB 7 does not support Delphi 4. We still offer RB 6.03 for Delphi 4. We
can send a source patch for RB 6.03 for Delphi 4 to fix a report generation
problem, at the time you upgrade.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors