Reverse Printdirection

rbuser

Hello You all,

do you know where the property for the "Reverse Print Direction" is hide
in??
I mean the checkbox you reach by clicking the button "properties" of a
certain printer
in the printDialog.
All my efforts to find this item in DevMode are not sucessfull!

thanks to all,
Lutz

digitalmetaphors

You are going to have to manually control the print process inorder to print
thepages in a backwards order. Here is an example to get you started which
prints a report backwards from the last page to the first page. What could
be done is to create your own custom print dialog (there is a demo of this
in your installed RBuilder\Demos\1.Reports\Main.dpr) and show the checkbox
always. If it is checked, you can make the modal result of the dialog
cancel, so that the report doesn't generate normally. However, there is
still a report with cached pages in existance. You can then take this report
and print the pages to the printer device you create as shown in this demo.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/PrintReportBackwards.zip

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors