Hi folks,

I have just installed OI7 and applied 7.0.1 straight away. All seems well, except that when I print, my margins seem not to be applied. I have tried both the margin parameters of the INIT command, and also set_printer('MARGIN') and both are ignored…

Any sugestions?

Rich

Rich,

Perhaps you should post your code. Margins have always been working for us in 7.0.x. Was this code working in pre-7.0.1?

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

Hi Don,

I did not test it in v7, as I patched straight to 7.0.1… It works fine in v4.13 however.

Even this simple peice of event code produces the error (no margins):

declare function set_printer, get_printer

* Start Printer

title=Test Report"

* A4 - 1/2 inch margins all round

paper=0.5 :@vm :0.5 :@vm :0.5 :@vm :0.5 :@vm :@vm :@vm :9

params=4 :@vm :0 :@vm :0 :@vm :0 :@vm :1 :@vm :7 :@fm :'-1'

* try margin command also

error=Set_Printer("MARGIN", 0.5:@fm:0.5:@fm:0.5:@fm:0.5)

error=set_printer('INIT', title, , paper, 0 :@fm :4, params, , ) error=set_printer ( "ADDTABLE", '<10440", , "hello!" , , , 0, 3 :@fm :'L')

error=set_printer("TERM")

return 0

Rich

Richard,

There are a couple of problems with your code.

First - Your paper and params parameters need to be @FM delimited and not @VM delimited.

Second - Your INIT message is specifying twips as the unit of measurement to use. Accordingly, when you use .5 as a margin size you are actually saying "I want my margins to be one-half a twip" rather than "I want my margins to be one-half an inch".

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

We have the same problem. Code that prints correctly in 4.1.3 is way off when using 7.0.

Don,

Thanks for your help - changing @vm to @fm and 0.5 to 720 gives the expected results. Bizarre that the previous code pasted into v4.13 works fine though!

Cheers, Rich

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