Portrait & Landscape combines 1

[sdocker]

I searched some of the past threads and did not get an answer. I did learn that combining portrait and landscape in troublesome.

I would like to print several different pages at once. One of which is in landscape mode.
I hack the FRx's

      REPLACE TAG  WITH cEmptyStr, Tag2 WITH cEmptyStr
      IF 'PPSD1' $ UPPER(oFile.NAME)      && LANDSCAPE REPORT
          REPLACE EXPR WITH 'ORIENTATION=1' + CHR(13) + 'PAPERSIZE=1' + CHR(13) + 'COLOR=2'
      ELSE
          REPLACE EXPR WITH 'ORIENTATION=0' + CHR(13) + 'PAPERSIZE=1' + CHR(13) + 'COLOR=2'
      ENDIF
      USE

This works fine when printing each report separately. However, if I run the reports as 1 print job, the printer ends up printing subsequent portrait reports in landsacape.

Would closing the print job and starting a new one when changing orientation help? I realize this would create 2 files when printing to a PDF. I can live with that, if it would help.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

How do you do the one print job? With REPORT FORM... NOEJECT?

Indeed the REPORT FORM help topic has a note:

Changing between page orientations, such as landscape to portrait, between reports is not supported.

So you really need to do multiple print jobs.

No idea what you may do with WinAPI to nest print jobs for the same printer to go to one file, but you can also attach multiple PDFs as aftermath, at least with Amyuni, but I'm also sure I've seen that with free PDF libraries in the meantime, perhaps with the pdf lib foxypreviewer also uses or with report sculptor or XFRX.

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[Mike Lewis]

I wouldn't mess around with trying to hack the FRX. It's much easier to do the job as two separate reports - and it doesn't necessarily mean you will end up with two separate PDFs.

You need to create separate FRXs for the two reports. Print each one with a separate a REPORT FORM command, but include NOPAGEEJECT in the first one. VFP will then treat them as a single print job.

As for PDFs, it depends on what method you use to create these. I've always used XFRX. In the scenario I have just described, that will give you a sngle PDF for the combined report.

Mike

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[Olaf Doschke]

Mike, I'm sure our posts overlapped and you haven't read what I posted already, with NOEJECT/NOPAGEEJCT the printer Expr for the next report is disregarded, so you can't change paper orientation that way. If you have other experiences, then it would be nice to know the setup, which PDF printer or other FRX hacks or code inside them you used to make that orientation change happen.

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[sdocker]

I use a code in a prg file to send multiple forms (frx's) to print, using NOPAGEEJECT on all but the last page.

The quote form the help file gives me an idea about what i'm up against.

Xfrx sounds interesting. I'll look into it.

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Dan Olsson]

With XFRX it's definitely possible to do that. Among many other functions, there is the possibility to "print" to RAM and chain many jobs to one, which you then close and copy to a printer (or a PDF).
See Link

 

[Mike Lewis]

I feel sure I have used XFFX to combine portrait and landscape into a single PDF. I will try and find the code.

Mike

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