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$totlines when printing

Author: ville.lahdensuo@ladok.umu.se (Ville58)

Hello everybody,

I have countered a problem when printing.

I’m getting different $totlines. If I choose PDF-creator, I get $totlines = 79, but with our default printer $totlines are 76. This difference is causing problems when printing (one page with PDF-creator becomes two when using default printer).

I guess that this has something to do with printer settings. My questions are:

- How does Uniface decide $totlines when I have chosen the printer?

- Is there some way for me to change printer settings so that $totlines would be the same?

I hope there is someone out there who can help me.

Best regards,

 Ville Lahdensuo

 Ladok Division, Umeå University

$totlines when printing

Author: ville.lahdensuo@ladok.umu.se (Ville58)

Hello everybody,

I have countered a problem when printing.

I’m getting different $totlines. If I choose PDF-creator, I get $totlines = 79, but with our default printer $totlines are 76. This difference is causing problems when printing (one page with PDF-creator becomes two when using default printer).

I guess that this has something to do with printer settings. My questions are:

- How does Uniface decide $totlines when I have chosen the printer?

- Is there some way for me to change printer settings so that $totlines would be the same?

I hope there is someone out there who can help me.

Best regards,

 Ville Lahdensuo

 Ladok Division, Umeå University

Hi Ville,

Just enter in your PRATT different bottom margins to balance the difference.

if you use P_MSWIN3 or P_MSWINX,
uniface communicates with the selected Windows printer driver to get the settings.

Sometimes, you have different settings in the border sizes and this causes different $totlines.
Sometimes, the available fonts can differ and the substitution font is smaller/larger on one of the devices.

Success, Uli

 


Author: ulrich-merkel (ulrichmerkel@web.de)

$totlines when printing

Author: ville.lahdensuo@ladok.umu.se (Ville58)

Hello everybody,

I have countered a problem when printing.

I’m getting different $totlines. If I choose PDF-creator, I get $totlines = 79, but with our default printer $totlines are 76. This difference is causing problems when printing (one page with PDF-creator becomes two when using default printer).

I guess that this has something to do with printer settings. My questions are:

- How does Uniface decide $totlines when I have chosen the printer?

- Is there some way for me to change printer settings so that $totlines would be the same?

I hope there is someone out there who can help me.

Best regards,

 Ville Lahdensuo

 Ladok Division, Umeå University

Thank you Uli.

I believe that different printer settings are causing my problem. Different bottom margins are, as you wrote, the way to solve the problem.

Thank you once again.

/Ville


Author: Ville58 (ville.lahdensuo@ladok.umu.se)
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