printing to DMP using generic text only driver

[austinms]

This is regarding a certain application where some reports are to be optionally printed to a Dot Matrix Printer. I am using Generic Text / Only Printer Driver. In my FRX files, I would like to use Condensed and Double Width printer codes but these get printed in the reports as dots with absolutely no effect on my reports.

I did a little further R & D on this, and now know that if the "Select 10 cpi" box in the Font Tab of the Generic Text/Only driver found in the Printers folder is updated with the printer code for Condensed/DW codes it works, my query is how can this be achieved thru a program i.e. updating the codes programmatically .

Alternately, is there any other way I can achieve the same result viz. printing Condensed/DW modes as I would in a DOS report ?

 

[GrigoreDolghin]

Hello

Try placing a field with CHR().

If the expression in a field is, for example: CHR(15) + "the rest of the expression", the printer will switch to condensed mode. Resetting the printer back to normal mode is done with CHR(15) also.

Hope this helps Grigore Dolghin
Class Software
Bucharest, Romania