I have had many problems with the windows dialog boxes and passing
printer setup
my reports are to all print in landscape, so it would be nice for the
user to not have the requirement to have to pick it when they run the
first report, i can set it on the mac, but they are pc users and the
windows version requires you to do a setup before being able to
change the setup. i was also not able to get a setup string and hard
code it because it contains printer specific info on windows, and
they need to pick different printers, so i disable the print option
until they do setup first, and they have to click landscape and
manually type in the margins
and even with that the fonts print different sizes on pc versus mac
are different and on windows, margins are different on every printer,
etc
the dialogs for print page # to page # give different answers mac
versus pc, i think it may have been fixed in some rb version where
all give 0 as first and the other gives 1 as first page, don't
remember now, i gave up and just made .pdfs and let them print from that
printing cross platform is really terrible
not sure if there is an easy solution, i haven't been able to find
one yet
and i just love the sensibility of having a 'supplies' button on mac
tiger... how bout a 'setup' button so i don't have to click cancel,
setup, click around, ok, file print blah blah.... the only thing i do
like on the windows print, is printer 'page setup' is in the SAME dialog
let us know if you find anything good
sorry had to complain a bit, it took hours upon hours on printing for
me i had to vent a little bit, only a little, the screaming already
happened
On May 31, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Paul Rehill wrote:
I experience a problem with OpenPrinterDialog on Windows XP when
passing a printer setup object to it. It works fine on Mac OS 10.3.
Basically, OpenPrinterDialog works fine the first time it is accessed
but after passing a printer setup object to it the second time, it
always returns a Nil graphics object.
Thankfully this problem doesn't occur with Open Printer so I have
included conditional statements which use OpenPrinterDialog on Mac OS
and OpenPrinter on Windows computers as a workaround.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
Regards
Paul Rehill
mathsteacher.com.au
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Loren
RB 555P Mac n Win Ide
Einhugarfied and monkey'd up
Tigger 10.4.1 - g5 2g
W2000 on Virt Pc and some junky laptop
discodj a~t mac _ c~o~m
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