Re: Printing report problem.

On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:20:26 +0800, lkmmis <lkmmis@hknet.com> wrote: >Hi there, I would like to tell you that I am using Informix 7.22 on >HP-UX platform. Also the front end is using Netterm to login the HP-UX >system under Windows 95. I wrote a printing report program using >Informix 4gl. When I run the report program and print it to a HP >LaserJet 6P printer, the next page's statements will join with the >previous page and the statements will move up more and more. Does anyone >know how to fix the problem, please? Thank you very much! > >My email address is tommyy_@hotmail.com You probably have the page length parameter in the output section of your report set wrong for that printer. To avoid problems with setup of different printers we usually send the output through a print filter that sets up the printer in a consistant manner so it can allways print the same number of lines per page independent on what particular printer we send the output to or how this printer is currently set up. A simple way of doing that is to make sure the standard Unix print filter for each printer sends a set of initialization codes to the printer before each file printed. We use a more sofisticated filter that can also set fonts and similar things from generic codes we print in 4GL. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)