Karen, That is sooooo slick!!!
Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:30 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: using margin options in reports Patti: Yes, the leap from DOS to Windows is a huge one! But one you won't regret once you get to the top! I have one client who prints almost everything on dot matrix -- both regular fanfold paper, and even 3 different widths of labels! I never used the "paper width" or "paper height" within my "print" command. In the report/label, I would go to File, Page Setup, Paper Size. Pick "custom" and type in my width and height. I'm looking at one now that has a width of 13.5 and a height of 12. If that alone didn't work, then you should use an old 6.5 Windows trick -- you define a printer "form" that you select as if it is a different type of paper. I defined a printer form called "4across" for one of my bigger labels; then the print statement would look like this: Here's what my print statement looks like: LBLPRINT MailingLabelsHH WHERE memberid <> 9999 + ORDER BY seatID, memberid OPTION PRINTER | + PRINTER_NAME \\w3kserver\epson LQ-2080 ESC/P 2 | PAPER_NAME 4across Here's my instructions on how to create a new form: Go to START/PRINTERS, highlight the printer and select FILE in the upper left corner, and click on SERVER PROPERTIES. In the Print Server Properties window check the box "Create New Form", this will allow you to provide a name for the form. Next, set the form parameters under the Measurements section. Height 7", width 6.5" Click Save Form and your newly created form will appear in the box above. Now close the Window. Next click on File and then click on Printing Preferences. Under the Layout Tab click on the Advanced button. Select the form you just created from the drop down list under Paper Size. Click OK and Close the Printer Preferences window. Karen Hi Anne, I never got to the point where I could print it. It never stopped calculating pages - or I stopped it after several thousand pages calculated and still no report. There were only supposed to be three pages. I was doing this to look for solutions to printing on dot matrix printers. We have fanfold paper that's 11 wide by 8.5 high. I can't use the landscape option for the printer set-up. I tried custom, but the doesn't work right - the print wraps around instead of going across the page. I've tried everything I could think of. Tried the Margin_width below. I tried printing to a ETXT file, then Output printer, set width 236, type filename, output screen. That doesn't do anything different. We really want to print to ETXT files, then print files to printer later. I tried Print reportname option printer |paper_width 11 |paper_height 8.5
