Print without preview

rbuser

Is there a way to prevent previewing a report and directly open the
print-dialog on calling report.print?

rbuser

On 09/12/2015 15:27, Carsten Eider wrote:

Report.DeviceType := dtPrinter;
Report.ShowPrintDialog := True;
Report.print;

rbuser

Ok, i have to be more precise: preview should not be displayed, but the
printdialog to export to a file

Paul Toms machte diesen Vorschlag :

rbuser

On 09/12/2015 20:32, Carsten Eider wrote:

Report.DeviceType := dtPrinter;
Report.AllowPrintToFile := True;
Report.ShowPrintDialog := True;
Report.print;

nicocizik

Similar to Paul's answer you will want to do something like the following...

Report.AllowPrintToFile := True;
Report.ShowPrintDialog := True;

Report.DeviceType := 'PDF';

Report.Print;

See the TppReport.DeviceType help topic for more information about
setting a default device type. You can also use the DefaultDeviceType
property to further control the initial state of the print dialog.

rbuser

In 5.56 we used
aReport.DeviceType := 'PDFFile';
In 16.03 we have to use
aReport.DeviceType := 'PDF';

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) hat uns dieses gebracht :

nicocizik

ReportBuilder did not include native PDF export until version 9.

You were likely using a third party export addon such as ExtraDevices
(which I believe used "PDFFile" as their device definition).