A client has a situation where they want to print two different preprinted forms and collate the result, something like:
Tray 1: blue copy of paycheck Tray 2: canary statement of earnings The well-known VFP trick is to establish two different reports and in Windows create two different named printer profiles and then alternate: DO WHILE NOT DONE REPORT FORM Paycheck TO PRINT PRINTER 'BlueTray' NEXT 1 SKIP -1 REPORT FORM Statement TO PRINT PRINTER 'CanaryTray' NEXT 1 ENDDO or similar pseudo-code. Works great, right up to the point that it don't. The statement is an intricate document with lots of curliques and takes longer to print than the paycheck, so what we end up getting out of the one output tray is: Paycheck1 Paycheck2 Statement1 Paycheck3 Statement2 Paycheck4 Paycheck5 Statement3 and so on. Since the two printer queues are unrelated, there's no coordination between the two. A search of the Leafe.com archives and Fox Wiki didn't turn up anything promising. Before I hack at this myself, wondered if anyone else had run into the problem and found an elegant solution, like using PRINTJOB or something. VFP9SP2+, Windows 7 and later, printer of unknown brand. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4u_hiP-gpZsg6tsoK3g1dSO6nVW=k9d57pzn8pqt8y...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
