I think I am going to put display formats on each report. Time consuming but not a big deal. The fields that are showing up blank are in the middle of the report, not anywhere near a margin. But I know what you mean -- in the past I have also had fields that nudge up to a margin and show up blank. A pizel or 2 to the side and it works.
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Brad Davidson <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 2:38 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Strange printing issues Karen, I’ve had similar issues as you state after DB conversion/upgrade, and have found the fix for me is: 1. Rt-Click and set display format within report designer. 2. Also in report designer. Blank Page: Slightly alter page margin wider (if possible), or, Select objects near the right/left margins and nudge a bit away from the margins. Understood you’re working with pre-printed forms, however, you may fine a suitable compromise… On rare occasions where this did not resolve the problem, I recreated the report with copy/paste from “old” report design. Brad Davidson From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:14 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Strange printing issues Client upgraded from 7.6 to 9.5, build 1212. RBase is installed on the server, DLL/CFG moved to installation directory. Workstations (mixture of Win 7 and XP) are running RBase from the server with -a parameter. Only problems noted are all printing related (both to the screen and printer). There are random fields in a few reports that print perfect when I'm doing it dialed into the server, but are blank on the workstations. The fields are text, either Arial or Courier New. I cannot play alot with field length/height because they are going on preprinted reports. At other times, reports without a display format defined for a date field will print out 4-digit years even though both sequence and format are 2-digit. The problem with this is that they claim it works for a while showing 2 digits, then all of a sudden goes to 4 digits, then back to 2 digits... I've searched and there is nowhere in code where I change the date format, nor do we import/export files. (Again, it works perfectly on the server) In the past, they had 7.6 installed locally on every workstation. I did not bother uninstalling RBase 7.6 on the workstations or on the server since I've seen no indication at other clients that it would interfere with running 9.5, and all the filenames used are different between the 2 versions. I wanted to get away from local installation in 9.5. Do you think I need to install locally or uninstall 7.6? I can fix the 2/4 digit year by modifying every report to put a display format, but this random skipping of fields is a deal-breaker that has to be figured out. Thanks for any suggestions you might have! Karen
