Article ID: 138396 - Last Review: February 12, 2007 - Revision: 3.4

How to use the default Windows printer in Visual FoxPro

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SUMMARY

The Report Writer in Visual FoxPro saves specific printer settings in the .frx file. Sometimes, a user may want the report to always print to the default Windows printer.
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The following steps will remove specific printer settings from the report file:

  1. Open the report as a table: 
       USE MYREPORT.FRX
  2. Locate the record that holds the printer information: 
       LOCATE FOR Objtype = 1 AND Objcode = 53
  3. Remove the printer settings: 
       REPLACE Tag  WITH ""
   REPLACE Tag2 WITH ""
   REPLACE Expr WITH ""
  4. Close the report table: 
       USE
At this point, the printer settings have been removed, and REPORT FORM will always print to the default Windows printer.
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REFERENCES

For more information about controlling the printer for a report, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
133163  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/133163/EN-US/ ) How To Control Printer Attributes for a Report at Run Time
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Professional Edition
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