Screen Resolution and Printer settings... 1

[GriffMG]

Just spent a happy few minutes on Skype with a customer who was only getting the top left 75% of his prints in a VFP app
that works perfectly well on my machine and on other ones in his office.

Didn't matter which printer driver we used, PDF, PCL, PS or whatever, he just kept getting the print clipped.

Turned out to be a screen resolution thing - the user has a massive screen, but not that good eyesight, so it was (roughly) 2460x something but key was the scaling
which was set to 150%.

Has anyone else seen this - is there a way to get VFP to display correctly under these circumstances?

We set the scaling back to 100% and it was perfect (if the user had been 17 and didn't need glasses like mine).

I have the following in the report settings:

DRIVER=WINSPOOL
ORIENTATION=1
PAPERSIZE=9
DEFAULTSOURCE=7
PRINTQUALITY=600
YRESOLUTION=600
TTOPTION=1


Regards

Griff
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[fitedgar]

May be this will help
thread184-1798781
Edgar

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[GriffMG]

Spot on, at least at first glance. Thank you, testing it now.

Regards

Griff
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[GriffMG]

Just for clarity, this is all I needed to add right at the beginning of the main program - before any display was interacted with (deliberately)

DECLARE INTEGER SetProcessDPIAware IN WIN32API
SetProcessDPIAware()

I claim no credit, but I'm jolly chuffed that Tek-Tips and Edgar helped my out of a bind.

Regards

Griff
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[mjcmkrsr]

Hi
Please have a look at thread184-1798781
hth
MarK

 

[Scott24x7]

Hi Griff,
Yup, have the same issue. Scaling in Windows seems to impact the printed output as well. Altops had the solution when I asked this a couple weeks back (that's the link to the thread just above this reply.)

So yeah, it's more than repeatable, but only bites you if its's scaled. The annoying thing I found was, I had 4 monitors connected to the same PC, but only ONE of them scaled, not the one the app was sitting in , and it still does it. ><


Best Regards,
Scott
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