memo keeptogether not working

rbuser

I have a memo in my footer. My memo is set to keeptogether. I am
printing to a dotmatrix printer. When my memo reaches the end of the
page it keeps printing right over the end of the page (over the
perferation) and on to the next page. I want my memo to stay together
and the whole thing to print on the next page. I read the help fiels
and what I got out of it was that keeptogether should do this. How
else can you do this?

Jason

digitalmetaphors

The memo should keep together. Sounds like the report engine isn't
calculating the proper space used on the printer canvas than is really being
used. Upgrade to the latest printer driver available for your printer
model. Can you try using a generic text printer driver? There is an
article in the TechTips newsgroup, in the Printer thread, which discusses
issues related to printing to dot matrix printers.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I am using a generic print driver right now. My margins are all at
0.25 and all my objects on the report are set to the height of 0.1667.
I followed that article as best as I could. Well I have a new
question now, apparently I am dealing with a dbRichText not a
memo...sorry. My question still remains the same, within enduser how
do I get the richtext to stop printing past the end of the page, or
force a page break before the richtext depending on the line
number.... and how to find the line number if the second option is the
only way to go.

Thanks again Jason


On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:27:55 -0600 , "Jim Bennett \(Digital

digitalmetaphors

Don't know how the generic text driver handles rich text. Usually rich text
will need to be printed on the dot matrix in graphical mode. You should use
a memo control and print the report as a report emulation text file and then
send that text file to the printer.

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Tech Tip: Send TextFile to Printer
-----------------------------------------------

I designed a application that exports the report to a .txt
file using ReportTextFile device.

How can I Send the text file to the printer?

The following procedure will send the .txt file to
the printer using Delphi's TPrinter object.



uses
Printers;


procedure SendTextFileToPrinter(aFileName: String);
var
lsLines: TStringList;
lOutputFile: TextFile;
liIndex: Integer;
begin

lsLines := TStringList.Create;

try
lsLines.LoadFromFile(aFileName);

AssignPrn(lOutputFile);
Rewrite(lOutputFile);

for liIndex := 0 to lsLines.Count-1 do
Writeln(lOutputFile, lsLines[liIndex]);

CloseFile(lOutputFile);

finally
lsLines.Free;
end;


end;


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors