Special characters

rbuser

Hi;

i have and app that doesnt print (paper and screen) '?s'; but this is
happening only on one office (network); using my own computer i tried the
same app on two different locations and the difference between them is the
data and the server.

The app was made with D5 pro, Rbuilder 6.03 std. and Advantage Tdataset
Descendant v. 6.2 with DBFs.

What i should check to solve this?


TIA

digitalmetaphors

Can you preview the data using a simple Delphi app (without RB involved) on
the problematic machines? Perhaps the font for that character is not
installed for the printer or screen? Can you see it in an app like MS Word
on those machines? Try downloading the latest printer driver/printer
utilities from the printer manufacturer.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim;

this on the same machine (mine) the difference is just the network and the
data on the DBFs. By the way the problem is only on the reports, when i look
the data on a delphi's data aware component it looks fine.

rbuser

Does the printer diver affects the display when i preview the report on my
screen?

digitalmetaphors

The printer driver is used by RB only for calculating the pagination. I was
thinking maybe a font would get installed by the latest printer to add
better support for the charset you are trying to use. The actual drawing of
the text is done using the screen device, ie. calls on a TCanvas from a
TBitmap. Can you pull this data from the database on this machine and render
these special characters by drawing on a form's canvas? If you can't see any
other differences and only RB shows the problem then could you send a simple
example to support@digital-metaphors.com that shows the problem?


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors