Changing print driver in VFP 9.0 1

[lifesupport]

I had VFP code that changed the printer driver to Acrobat print driver then returned the driver back to the default print driver. In VFP 7.0, this worked fine. Just recently I upgraded to VFP 9.0 and this no longer works. It changes to the Acrobat Print driver just fine, but it won't return it to the original print driver. Originally I wrote:

Set print driver to name (pcoldprinter)
I step thru the code and the value of 'pcoldprinter' was correct.

Then I tried:
set print driver to set("printer",2) and also
set print driver to set("printer",3) and also
set print driver to default

None of these worked.

I cleaned out the values in the reports 'expr', tag & tag2 fields. Still didn't work.

Any idea why this won't change back?

Thanks

 

[rob444]

These are the helpfile notes on set printer...


SET PRINTER ON [PROMPT] | OFF
SET PRINTER FONT cFontName [, nFontSize [, nFontCharSet]] [STYLE cFontStyle]
SET PRINTER TO [FileName [ADDITIVE] | PortName]
SET PRINTER TO [DEFAULT | NAME WindowsPrinterName]
SET PRINTER TO NAME \\ServerName\PrinterName

If your previous printer is the default printer then use
set printer to default

Rob.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Lifesupport,

First, setting the printer to SET("PRINTER",3) is never going to do any good. It justs sets the printer to whatever it was before you issue the command.

I suggest you do this:

lcPrevPrinter = SET("PRINTER",3)
SET PRINTER TO NAME Acrobat && or whatever you call the Adobe driver
&& do other stuff here
SET PRINTER TO NAME (lcPrevPrinter)

If that doesn't work, temporarily change the second line to point to a different printer (not an Acrobat driver). That will at least tell you whether it's your code or the Acrobat driver that's causing the problem.

Mike


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My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[GriffMG]

You need to be a bit careful changing the printer driver from within a running application sometimes too.

To an Acrobat one and back, has never caused me an issue - but some of the 'esoteric' ones don't load well, except at application startup. I'm thinking of HP ones and I don't know if it affects VFP 9 as much as it did VFP 5/6

Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

 

[lifesupport]

Thanks for the input. You guys were right. It seems that Acrobat 6.0 doesn't give my application in VFP 9.0 any problems, but once I try Acrobat 5.0, it won't work properly. So, it was the Acrobat driver. All I did was switch Acrobat 5.0 to 6.0 and back again; now the Acrobat 5.0 won't even load. It's acting inconsistently. Perhaps there's no work-around for this.

 

[lifesupport]

It turns out that Acrobat Adobe 5.0 only works with VFP 9.0 if you download the most current free Acrobat Adobe 7.0 reader.