Thanks, Buddy, I've created a new Windows printer as you detailed and
changed the default printer on a report to the new one but it makes no
difference for me

This report, and many others, only ever get printed to a file, that is their
sole purpose in life. They never go to a screen or a printer or a fax or any
type of file other than plain text. There's no formatting - just line after
line of text.

There must be something else that I haven't got right yet.

Regards,
Alastair.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walker, Buddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:00 PM
Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Page Breaks - Printing


> Alstair
>   Thanks for your reply.
>
>   The problem was if you printed to the screen or directly to the printer
everything was fine, but as soon as you print to a text file extra line
feeds/carriage returns are added at random spots in the file.
>
>  Work around.
>
>    1. Add a generic text only printer
>    2. Text Printer Properties > Device Settings > Form to tray Assignment
> Cont. Feed No Break
>        From the drop down select Not Available
>    3. This will work except it will prompt for a name. To get around this
do the following
>         Add a new printer that prints to the special "File:" port
>         From the printers' panel, right click on the printer you have just
added and select Properties.
>        A panel showing the properties for this printer will pop up, click
on the Details tab of this panel.
>        Click on the Add Port... button.
>        The Add Port panel will pop up, click on the Other radio button,
and make sure Local Port is highlighted, click on OK.
>        A small panel asking for the name of the port will pop up, enter
the name of a file in the edit box, for example   C:\Output.prn.
>
>    Maybe this will help others
>
> Buddy

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