Landscape/Portrait Settings 1

[BobHunter]

Folks,

Just one more. When I compile a report, with all the settings in landscape, the compiled report opens in portrait, chopping off a lot of info. This can only be rectified by using the print setup button in the compiled report. Any ideas ?

Bobster

 

[bburnell]

Hi,
Can you set the orientation before you compile it? I don't use compiled reports, so I am not familiar with them. What I do with .RPT files is set it in the .RPT file as landscape and it works fine. See FAQ 2A.
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[BobHunter]

Just to clarify, I set the setting to landscape in the RPT file, compile it to EXE, and it spits it back out compiled in portrait.

Going mad.

Bobster

 

[bburnell]

I don't know. I have no experience with compiled reports. Sorry. It works fine with a VB 6 frontend. I know it works when you tell a DSR to print landscape and compile it within VB also. Sorry I can't be of further assistance.
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[kenhamady]

I have run into this with Compiled reports. It is a flaky problem with no clear solution that I know of (yet).

What works in some situations is to create another printer name for the client's printer. Use the same printer name on the development PC. I used "report printer" as the printer name.

Crystal will first look for the printer name from the design PC (even if it is a different model), and if it doesn't find that name, it will use that PCs default printer. It is supposed to always use the report's orientation, but I have seen situations like yours where it doesn't.

With the new report printer you can set the default for that printer to landscape, and see if that gets the report correctly. Ken Hamady

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