Bernie, If you are printing to a file and using a Report Definition rather than a Label one then I would suggest that you copy your R:Base report to a new one and amend it thus:
Layout| Report Settings| Lines per page: 100 - why 100? I don't know but it works & higher doesn't! Layout| Report Settings| Print Orientation: None Try not to use the AutoExpand option but do have your fields large enough across the page to hold all the data you expect. You can get some very strange positioning in a file with AutoExpand set on. Ensure that the left margin is at the left of the page - ie: no margin. Ensure that the right margin is well past the right-hand edge of any/every field. Try to have the fields _just_ touching vertically with no white space between them but ensure that the green section dividers are not touched by anything. I have never used the Label Designer so I have no idea how that might be different but, hopefully, somebody else will be able to help you. If not, try applying what you can of the above. It took me a long time to get reports printed to a file successfully but those rules seem to make it work. One other thing, check for any form of corruption in your data - I've had problems with "unusual" characters that have appeared to thrown R:Base - accented letters, that sort of thing, and the usual "unprintables" - CR/LF etc. Good luck, Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Lis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:49 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - R:Merge 1.4 Label print problem > 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 > > --- RBASE-L > ================================================ > TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: > INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, > REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n > (where n is the number of days). In the message body, > place any > text to search for. > ================================================ >
