On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Jonathon Bevar wrote:
I wish though RealSoftware created a Print Forms IDE as it would make things so much more easier, and not to mention save a forest or two as this one print out took me 250(125 double sided pages) sheets of paper to get right. Oh, I reused the pages as when one side was printed, I then flipped it over and used the back side for testing.
I have no idea what kind of report you are creating but usually when I have some complex printout to create I will first use a window with nothing but a canvas and use the canvas graphics object instead of the printer graphics object until I have the layout of the report working properly. At that point all I have to do is call the printing method passing it the printer graphics instead of the canvas graphics object. Plus, depending on the circumstances, I can then offer print preview using the canvas and print to go to the printer.
I believe that you do most of your work in the Windows environment. Maybe the next release of Windows will offer creating a PDF as a print option the way that Mac OS X does. That can save a ton of paper when you don't want to go the canvas route.
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