Karen: One of the things to check is whether the printer commands are actually getting to the file. I have not used PAGEMODE for a while but a have a very large and complex DOS report that I need to activate in Windows. I have an old HP Laserjet compatible printer, which is on loan and I will retrieve this weekend; when I do, I will run a few tests and let you know what I find out. Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tellef Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:28 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Pagemode in Windows Javier: I'm printing to an HP laserjet. Using the same printer control codes copied from a PAGEMODE report that I did to a lserjet in DOS to do boldfacing and underlining. But my Windows program seems to ignore it. (I am PAGEMODEing to a file, then using zip command.com to copy to printer.) You mention doing it in DOS, have you done it in Windows? I have a copy of an old email from back in RBWin 6.5 days that says he (don't know who) had to print to a Generic/Text Only printer driver in order to keep the control codes. But in both my computers here, I couldn't install this printer because it couldn't find the necessary files (at least TTY.DRV). My client doesn't have this printer installed and I don't know whether to expect the same thing there (and they'll have about 20 users to install a driver on). Karen >How are you defining your printer control characters? As you know, they are specific to each printer, although you can use the compatibility mode (Epson, HP or IBM) with most older printers. I have used PAGEMODE extensively under DOS and I generated reports that if memory served, printed correctly when the report was copied to LPT1 under Windows. You can look at the file using a plain text editor (Notepad) and verify that the control characters are indeed making it to the file. When I worked with PAGEMODE and DOS, I created a table (printer_codes) that stored the settings (bold, compressed, portrait, etc) for all the printers that I used,. Before running PAGEMODE, I run a file that checked to see which printer was being used and then read the setting for that printer from the printer_codes table and defined variables with these settings; I would then place the variables (vcomp, vbold, vportrait, etc.) in the proper place in the report within PAGEMODE and it worked great. I hope this information is of help <
