I need to print labels to disk to send to a printer who will print them on circulars. 29,971 labels were printed. The printing company reads only about 3,000 records (I haven't yet contacted them to know how they are reading the file)
I printed to .txt file Then to prove there are 29,971 labels, I loaded them into a separate database, one table, text 80 (the labels shouldn't be more than 40 characters wide) but during the load,I get truncation errors. There will be blank lines between labels, some will have 3 lines some 4. After the load I deleted all null records. What is left, If I divide by 3, I would get about 3,000 labels. Same as what the printer got. However, if at a dos prompt, I type the .txt file, the last record that displays is the correct expected last label. I believe they are all there, but I don't know how to read them back. Then I printed them as a pdf file (I don't know if the printing co. can handle a pdf file some addresses are split between pages (is there a way to prevent any widows & orphans in a pdf file?). But they are all there. 2,457 pages at approx 12 per page gives me the approx total of 29,971 Then I printed them as RTF. after the preview is generated, I get the error "bitmap image is not valid" The size of the resultant file is 565 bytes. The pdf file is 6,768,547 bytes. the txt file is 1,807,435 bytes. What should I do? Bernie Lis
