Printing to an old dot matrix tractor feed printer

[messaoudlazhar]

you can use FormSize I think it works well:

- Create a new form with the required dimensions from the print server properties
- use the form created :

DCPRINT ON TO ... FORMSIZE <form>

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Best Regards

[Eugene Lutsenko]

I'm on the computer as printer a pdf-driver is installed and I always print in pdf-file, which is then no problem standard means printed on any printer

[Jean]

you can use FormSize I think it works well:

- Create a new form with the required dimensions from the print server properties
- use the form created :

DCPRINT ON TO ... FORMSIZE <form>

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Best Regards

Thank you and as soon as everyone leaves me alone I am doing it. Can you relate?

[Jean]

I'm on the computer as printer a pdf-driver is installed and I always print in pdf-file, which is then no problem standard means printed on any printer

I am going to try the "DCPRINT ON TO ... FORMSIZE <form>" and if need be try the pdf approach. Thanks for your idea!
Jean

[Wolfgang Ciriack]

I think, printing a PDF-document to a dot matrix printer is no good idea, evreything is printed as grafic and this is extremly slow.

[rdonnay]

As the old water program is a dos app is it possible to get it to run on the new windows?

Is the old program written in Clipper?

If not, then you have a few options.

1. Run on 64-bit systems using DOSBOX.EXE.
2. Run on 32-bit systems.

If it is written in Clipper, then it only needs recompiling in Xbase++.

[messaoudlazhar]

To create form in Windows XP see : http://www.ehow.com/how_5672136_create- ... ws-xp.html
To create form in Windows 7 see : http://windowsitpro.com/windows-7/q-how ... -windows-7

BEGIN SEQUENCE
Imprfont:="12.Times New Roman"
DCPRINT OPTIONS TO aOptions NOSCALE UNITS GRA_PU_LOMETRIC
DCPRINT ON TO oPrinter FONT Imprfont OPTIONS aOptions CANCELENABLE FORMSIZE "LabelForm"
if valtype(oPrinter) # "O" .or. !oPrinter:lActive
BREAK
endif
...
// Your code
...
END SEQUENCE
DCPRINT OFF
RETURN

Good job!

[Jean]

As the old water program is a dos app is it possible to get it to run on the new windows?

Is the old program written in Clipper?

If not, then you have a few options.

1. Run on 64-bit systems using DOSBOX.EXE.
2. Run on 32-bit systems.

If it is written in Clipper, then it only needs recompiling in Xbase++.

No not clipper.
Jean

[Jean]

I was side tract on this issue for awhile and I had been a bit under the weather. Just getting back to this issue. I know no one has a tractor feed printer so I thought may be a test app would be the best thing to show you what is happening. If you send this report to a file the results are similar to what happens when I send it to a tractor printer. May be you can explain to me what I should do to correct this.

It appears that the if you have a line like this "DC_PrinterRow(),23 DCPRINT SAY 'Curr'" it moves over 23 spaces from the last thing that printed and not from the being of the line.

Jeanne

[rdonnay]

If you want it to start at the end of the last thing printed, then try @ DC_PrinterRow(),DC_PrinterCol() DCPRINT SAY 'Curr'".

You are printing everything on a grid.

The grid defaults to 60 rows and 80 columns.

When you print at column 33, you are printing 33/80 of the width of the page.