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    4.5 Report Printing Bug?

    This "bug" was apparently introduced with the 4.5 upgrade, and it concerns report printing.

    I'm printing to a form that is 6" x 8.5". The top 3.6" of the page is the page header area. The report is based on a many-to-one set, and it page breaks on a change in the key of the parent DB. Each DB record will fit onto a single page of the report form and reflects data for one of my clients. These are invoices. Hard coded into the report is the printer selection, an Epson 24 pin impact printer.

    Page 1 prints correctly. The client header is in the correct place, the client's detail data is in the correct place, and the page break occurs at the correct place. So far so good.

    Page 2 header prints correctly, and the client 2 page 2 detail prints correctly, However, there is NO page break at the end of page 2 detail. Instead, the detail for page 3 (client 3) prints immediately after the detail of client 2. At the physical end of the page, there IS a page break and the page header data for client 3 is printed followed by the continuation of the detail data for client 3, and that is immediately followed by whatever data for client 4 fits on that page. At the end of that page is another page break, and the same behavior is repeated.

    That behavior continues for the remainder of the report.

    No changes were made to the report before or after installation of the 4.5 upgrade. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this (if it's not an A5 bug)?


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    #2
    RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

    Correct that. The set is a One parent to many children. Account to Charges.

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      #3
      RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

      Ken,

      Recently, there was a patch .dll posted here. It fixed a report grouping bug keeping together on page. If you search on .dll You should find it attached to that message.

      If not, email me I can email it back. Tried attaching it here but the board won't accept a file at the moment.

      Michael

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        RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

        Ken

        I am having similar problems with the program

        When using the Genie it creates a report that is too wide for a single page, even though the data will fit on one page, and the Genie adds a blank page between printed pages... (the printed pages are numbered correctly I just have additional blank pages.)

        Have you gotten any assitance to these bugs after you posted your message?

        Hunter

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          #5
          RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

          Michael,

          Had no luck finding that dill patch to correct printing bug

          would you be kind enough to email it to me?

          Thanks

          Hunter

          [email protected]

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            #6
            RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

            Hunter, you may have to manually resize objects in your layout to prevent them from extending into 'unprintable' areas at the top and side margins of y our page.

            I used to use minimum top, bottom, and side widths of 0.5", but have discovered that some newer printers need 0.6"

            If Alpha Five cannot print a portion of your report because it falls in the unprintable region on a page, it will attempt to print it on the next page.

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              RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

              I'm waiting for the DLL that has a fix for the reporting bug. Now that you mention it, an extra blank page WAS generated in my output. Other than that, I'll double check to make sure all report objects fit within the page margins, and the page margins are appropriate for my printer.

              -- Ken

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                RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

                ken:
                attached is the revised a2print.dll
                It fixed my printing problems
                I put it in the Program filesA5v4
                Charlie Crimmel

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                  RE: 4.5 Report Printing Bug?

                  I've installed the DLL. While it does have an effect on the printed output (I'm getting an extra blank page every once in awhile when the very last printable line of an invoice is used), the original problem I described at the top of this thread remains. Any suggestions on getting Alpha techies involved?

                  -- Ken

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