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Hi Jim,
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Article: Why Preview may not Match Printed Output
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ReportBuilder uses the Printer device context to pe… -
Hi Jesus,
In the PrinterSettings of your report, does the orientation match the
orientation set in the ThinPrint dialog? If not, this may be causing a
conflict when trying to print your report.
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Regards,Hi Jesus,
As a test, try changing your library path to \RBuilder\Source\... and see if
you can find out where the problem is occuring in the RB code. Keep in mind
though that ReportBuilder sends the same commands to every pri…Hi Jesus,
ReportBuilder uses simple Windows API commands to communicate with the
printer driver. It sends the same commands to every printer driver in the
following fashion...
ReportBuilder ==> Windows API ==>…If possible, please send a sample of this report in .zip format to
support@digital-metaphors.com so I can test it on my machine.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
in save report to PDF Comment by nicocizik March 2005Hi Halim,
ReportBuilder consists of numerous "device" objects. Each device has the
capability of outputting a report to a specific medium. When you call
Report.Print, the report engine will work through each object you have …Hi Halim,
Adding ppPDFDevice to your uses clause will enable exporting to PDF at
runtime. See the TppPDFDevice topic in the ReportBuilder help for detailed
instructions on exporting to PDF and some sample code of doing so.Hi Antony,
You need to recompile and reinstall the TXtraDev packages. This should fix
the problem.
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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
in txtra v 2.92 Comment by nicocizik March 2005Hi Greg,
This is a known issue and will be fixed for the next maintanence release of
ReportBuilder (9.02).
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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
Hi Dan,
There is a ScaleImages property on the PDFDevice that may help with size,
however it will cause you to loose image quality when zoomed in. It is on
our wish list to someday enhance this feature for a later release.Hi Dan,
The PDF Device included with ReportBuilder currently only exports richtext
components to an image.
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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
Hi Ara,
Be sure you are using the PrinterSetup.BinNames property to define the
actual bin name you would like to use. This way you can be certain the
correct bin name is being entered into the property. I believe by default,…Hi Ara,
When calling Report.Print with the ShowPrintDialog property set to False,
ReportBuilder will use the PrinterSetup defined when the report was created
rather than the setup defined from the previous print job. Why not …Hello,
This issue should have been fixed for RB 9.02. If possible, please send a
small example of this behavior in .zip format to
support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll take a look at it for you.
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Regards,<…Hi Dan,
Which version of ReportBuilder are you using? If possible, please send a
small example of this in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com and
I'll work on finding the issue for you.
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Regards,Hi Eugenio,
ReportBuilder uses the Windows API to retrieve the printers installed on
your machine and constructs a list of these printers (TppPrinterList). This
printer list is saved in memory so RB does not have to keep aski…Hi Steve,
Take a look at the following example. It shows how to easily replace the
preview dialog with one that has the print button hidden.
Hi Robert,
You can register and unregister each output device as you need before the
report prints using the ppRegisterDevice and ppUnRegisterDevice methods.
For example...
uses
ppDevice,
ppFilDev;
Hi Girish,
Thanks for the suggestions
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital MetaphorsHi Tommy,
The current version of ReportBuilder converts all custom components as well
as RichText and Barcode components into bitmaps before drawing them to the
PDF file. This sometimes causes it to loose much of the detail o…Hi Pedro,
Unfortunately transparent images are not currently supported in the PDF
export device. I have added this to our to-do list to research and possibly
add as an enhancement to a later release of ReportBuilder.---------------------------------------------
Article: Troubleshooting Custom Paper Sizes
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Some printers cannot handle custom paper sizes, or they
can only handle custom pa…Hi John,
I'm a bit unclear about what is happening here. If you set the
PrinterSetup.PaperName to Custom and the Width to 4.25, is the report not
printing as expected? Will some of the objects not print in the full 4.25
Hi Laura,
Which version of ReportBuilder are you currently using? If you set your
Delphi IDE to stop on exceptions, where is the error occuring?
If you are a new user of ReportBuilder, I would definitely recommend readin…Hi Marco,
For future reference please do not post attachements to this newsgroup.
Usually Waler support monitors these newsgroups and answers questions but
you may want to email their support address directly with the iss…Hi Karen,
The following article may also be of some help.
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Tech Tip: Send TextFile to Printer
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I designed a appl…Hi Karen,
Unfortunately I do not have any experience using the TPrinter object
although I believe it is well documented in the Delphi Help.
Demo 107 simply exports a report to a Report Emulation Text file, then loads
Hi Karen,
Sorry, I didn't see that you were already using the BeforePrint event.
Creating the device on the fly is probably the way to go with this.
ReportBuilder is not equipt to directly print text files. The LinesHi Karen,
Setting the device type does not automatically create that file device. The
file device will be created on demand when Print is called. Try setting the
device properties after Report.Print has been called (perhaps …Hi Karen,
Are you first exporting the report to a text file (txt) then trying to print
it to your matrix printer? You may want to try printing directly from
ReportBuilder to your printer. Below is an article on what to look …