Printing 4 pages to A3 as booklet

rbuser

Are there a recommended solutions for creating a report that will print
to a booklet format.

ie. pages 1,2,3 & 4 appear on a duplexed A3 sheet so that:

Side 1: Page 4 on right, Page 1 on left
Side 2: Page 2 on right, Page 3 on left

When folded in half this would produce a 4 page A4 booklet.

Page 1 contains an image & summary data, pages 2-4 contain the contents
of a single memo.

Cheers

Phil.

nicocizik

Hi Phil,

Take a look at the following example of creating a booklet style report.

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

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:

Thanks Nico

This example puts all the hard work into the host delphi app. Is there
anything I can code into the report itself?

This whole issue would be easy to deal with if the standard Print Dialog
would accept the page numbers to print in the order they were entered
rather than forcing them to be sequential...(ie if I type 4,1,2,3 and
use my print driver to specify A3 booket, I get 1,2,3,4) I'm not sure if
that's a ReportBuilder thing though?...

Mart

nicocizik

Hi Mart,

The page range feature in the print dialog does not have the ability to
re-order the pages printed in a report. Take a look at demo 124 located in
the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory (dm0124.pas). This example
shows how to create your own page list and send it to the printer with a
manually defined order.

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Regards,

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