Repeating lines

rbuser

When I preview a report it looks good. Then when I print it, it does
not print the same way it was previewed. On the print out the first
three lines of the second page, will print at the bottom just above the
footer of the prior page. The preview looks exactly how it should the
print out, is printing extra.

example

Preview Bottom of page 1.

This is a note
Note Detail 1
Note Detail 2
Note Detail 3


Footer

Preview Top of page 2

Note Detail 4
Note Detail 5
Note Detail 6


But when you print it it doesnt do that it does this.

Printout Bottom of page 1.

This is a note
Note Detail 1
Note Detail 2
Note Detail 3
Note Detail 4
Note Detail 5
Note Detail 6
Footer

Preview Top of page 2

Note Detail 4
Note Detail 5
Note Detail 6


How can i fix this?

Thanks.

rbuser

Chris M wrote:
I changed my reports printer to Default from screen and it seems to have
fixed the issue. however the only reason i have it set to screen is
that that fixes some windows 98 issue where it starts generating errors.
Does this still happen in Windows 98? or is there another way to
eliminate those errors?

nicocizik

Hi Chris,

1. Try setting the Report.CachePages property to True and see if that
helps.

2. Most times when the printed output is not the same as the preview
output, there is some event code somewhere that is being fired during report
generation that is changing it. As a test, try commenting out all your
event code and see if that helps the issue. If so, periodically begin
adding the event code back to isolate the problem.

The Screen option for a printer was included to remove some cases of the
"Canvas does not allow drawing" error when no printer was installed on a
machine. What type of errors were you receiving in Win 98?
--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:

I'll have to check to see what the windows 98 issues were. Using the
screen printer was a solution i found in these newsgroups and it seemed
to be a commonly known issue.

I have node that changes anyother other than visibility things in bands
when they print. and i'm fairly certain this is not the cause. When I
changed this to use default printer, it worked perfectly.

It would seem that it 8.5 x 11 on screen does not equal 8.5x11 on the
printer or margins or something is different. It then prints what it
can fit on the paper which is more than the screen, then it seems to ask
where to start the next page at, when it does that it starts where the
screen says it should start, even though the paper was already able to
print that on the prior page.

nicocizik

Hi Chris,

ReportBuilder uses the printer driver when outputing to screen and printer.
Occationally there can be a small difference between the output of the
screen and the printer due to the difference between screen pixels and
printer pixels, but nothing drastic like you describe. Did you try the
CachePages property? The fact that the printed output is different than the
screen output means that something is changing in between the generation of
the report to screen and the generation of the report to printer.

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com