Troy, how do you print the "background" form in Rbaes? Keep in mind, that legally it must be the right color red, And the microprint junk on the back must also be printed in the Same color red.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Sosamon Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:35 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: HCFA headaches (reports) I agree. I would just print the whole thing. Troy Sosamon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:15 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: HCFA headaches (reports) > I even tried page mode but I kept getting blank > pages > between the printed pages. By far the easiest solution, and one that would provide a competitive advantage to your product, would be to print the ENTIRE form, not just the filled in items, on blank paper. Some report writers (I'm not sure about the R:Base one) let you use BMPs as a background or "watermark" for the report page -- using that technique you could scan in a HCFA form, and then print it out again as an exact image, with the boxes filled in. Alternatively, you could simply recreate the form with the correct fonts and formatting as a report. Either way, you would be assured of perfect forms each time, and be able to tell your clients they would save heaps on buying preprinted forms. One client, very resistant to moving from DOS to Windows, took their first baby step when we showed them how they could replace their expensive, pre-preprinted, multi-part invoices with plain paper. If you can't print the whole report, then you have a bigger problem. Because of the issues you cited, you won't be able to solve it by simply including X number of reports -- you will always find printers that won't fit one of your preformated reports. I think you would have to ask RBTI for an enhancement. The easiest to implement and use would probably be to ask them to let you override the Top Margin in the OPTION clause of the PRINT COMMAND: PRINT HCFA1500 OPTION TOP_MARGIN .256 Then, you could include a calibration routine in the database that would print the report with a variety of margins. When the user found one that worked, you would store that margin away and use it whenever you print the report. -- Larry __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
