form.PrintForm to a .PDF?

[UBfoolin]

How can I form.PrintForm to a .PDF? Maybe a better question is how do I print a form so that I get the normal Windows print dialog box? If I could get that, I could pick Adobe PDF just as I do for Word, Excel, etc.

Thank you for your time.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

How about adding a CommonDialog control and calling the printer dialog from it?

Cheers

Harleyquinn

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[UBfoolin]

I am certainly willing to give it a try, but need to know that the CommonDialog works with form.PrintForm. I can not find where it does. Has anyone done this?

Thank you

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Use the common dialog to change the settings for the default printer and then use the .PrintForm. The .PrintForm command uses the default printers current settings to determine how the document is printed. Therefore, if you change those settings you change the values used in the .PrintForm command.

Hope this helps

Harleyquinn

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[UBfoolin]

Okay, that works! Thank you.

Now, how can I read what the default Windows printer is before I change it? After I print my form, how do I then reset the default Windows printer back to it's original value?

Thank you

 

[johnwm]

1. Have a look at faq222-2244 to see how to get the best from this forum overall

2. The FAQ button at the top of the page will take you to several FAQs which deal with the Printer object

2. Using the Search button at the top of this window will sjow a number of previous questions (and answers) to this - for instance thread222-1017932

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