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I am printing reports to 2 different printers behind the scenes without calling up the 'Show Printer Setup'. These printers are dedicated to these 2 reports. While you are working, they print as required.
The one is a card printer with a 3.362 x 2.114 page, the other an Epson 13".
The cards are giving me grief. I have a picture (tried jpg & bmp) for a background on the card - full bleed. In the past (V5), I've been able to use 0.0 for margins and use print 1 page in the pop up 'Printer Setup'. The Alpha 'Trim excess' would take care of the oversize. If I did not use the print 1 page option it would print the required page and then a blank one with the picture background. Now without that print 1 page option since I have turned off the 'printer setup box', I need to use a margin of 0.05 on all 4 sides to get it to only print 1 card. That's OK, a little white border looks good too.
But if I have any of the data fields, or a conditional object, or the background picture field(field from another table), within 0.20" - 0.25" of the bottom edge of the report, Alpha goes wild and starts rendering up thousands of pages. The card priner takes off and starts to print 1 good record/card and the rest blank.
Now (V6), if things have changed so you need another 1/4" of bottom for a report that may be fine for a letter sized paper, but it sure costs on a 2" card.
Am I doing something stranger here than usual, or have the report margins/boundaries changed?
Thanks
Duane
I am printing reports to 2 different printers behind the scenes without calling up the 'Show Printer Setup'. These printers are dedicated to these 2 reports. While you are working, they print as required.
The one is a card printer with a 3.362 x 2.114 page, the other an Epson 13".
The cards are giving me grief. I have a picture (tried jpg & bmp) for a background on the card - full bleed. In the past (V5), I've been able to use 0.0 for margins and use print 1 page in the pop up 'Printer Setup'. The Alpha 'Trim excess' would take care of the oversize. If I did not use the print 1 page option it would print the required page and then a blank one with the picture background. Now without that print 1 page option since I have turned off the 'printer setup box', I need to use a margin of 0.05 on all 4 sides to get it to only print 1 card. That's OK, a little white border looks good too.
But if I have any of the data fields, or a conditional object, or the background picture field(field from another table), within 0.20" - 0.25" of the bottom edge of the report, Alpha goes wild and starts rendering up thousands of pages. The card priner takes off and starts to print 1 good record/card and the rest blank.
Now (V6), if things have changed so you need another 1/4" of bottom for a report that may be fine for a letter sized paper, but it sure costs on a 2" card.
Am I doing something stranger here than usual, or have the report margins/boundaries changed?
Thanks
Duane