Re: print setup saves the printer


"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <dm4955$jph$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "C"
> <c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> i have just upgraded my solution to 8 and i am having a few teething
>> probs
>> with the printing.
>>
>> it seems that the 'print setup' and 'print' in the srcipts not only
>> saves
>> the orientation and size of the page, which is fine (as expected), but it
>> also saves the printer which is being used. in six it just used the
>> default
>> printer
>>
>> is this normal behaviour and do i have to make a setup script for each
>> printer. and also what happens once it is used on a different machine
>> that
>> does not have that printer installed
>>
>> the joys of upgrading
>
> The Print Setup command has ALWAYS been printer specific and worked
> that way.
>
> For example, when using a Mac with an Epson printer you set the Page
> Setup [Restore] command by setting the Page Setup to A4 landscape. BUT
> if you use the database on another computer with a different printer
> (or in some case the same printer) the Page Setup command reverts to
> that printers defaults - it's only on a Mac with the same Epson that
> you'll get the A4 landscape page.
>
> This means you HAVE to set or reset the stored Page Setup information
> using the same computer type (Windows or Mac), the same operating
> system (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows 200, etc.) and the same printer
> software. Doing this is of course impossible on something like a
> shareware solution that will be run on unkonw computer configurations,
> so you're best to stick to the default setting of US Letter portrait.
>
> Using the Page Setup [Restore] command a script can store the Page
> Setup information for multiple printers, but only ONE setting for any
> particular printer, ie. the same script / command can store A4
> landscape for an HP2200 and A4 landscape for an Epson Photo 700. It
> can't store A4 landscape and A4 portrait for the Epson within the same
> script - for that you need two scripts with the Page Setup [Restore]
> command storing the appropriate sizes.
>
> To store multiple Page Setups, you ...
>
> - create a script including a Page Setup [Restore] command
>
> - close the script
>
> - A: choose a printer in your operating system's Printer settings
>
> - choose the Page Setup command from the file menu and change
> the settings
>
> - open the script, close the script and choose to replace the
> Page Setup information
>
> - go back to step A and choose another printer
>
>
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)



hi harry

i am now working in eight and it seems this no longer works

it seems to save the exact printer and printer settings

which means even if a users has a different printer selected eg pdfprinter
it will still print to the printer in in the script (my lexmark)

i have tried saving multiple settings like in six but i just saves it as the
last printer

i have even set all of the print scripts to not restore settings

i think i have found away around this if i know all the printers in the
office

but when we send out a runtime to the clients it not going to be easy

my script

set variable curr_printer = get (printer name)
if curr_printer = "lexmark"
print (setup saved as lexmark)
elseif curr_printer = "pdf"
print(setup saved as pdf printer)
elseif curr_printer = "another printer"
print()
endif

but the i am not sure what will happen if they dont have any of those
printers installed

have filemaker published any thing on the changes in eight on the printing
front


Cheers

C



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