On 10 Jan 2006, at 17:29, Ralf Reköndt wrote: > > I have a terrible problem with printing under XChange Archive: > > As far as I remember, ArchRTM and Archive v2.38 do ignore the > number of > lines per page setting in the printer_dat and awaites the running > program to > do that by itself. > > XChange (the recent one), does not seem to behave so. The program I > use, > calculate the possible lines per page (they can be different, > depending how > much is printed!), then FF. But there is another FF, depending on > the length > set in the archv_dat. Is this a known bug in XChange? If I set the > number of > lines per page to 255 all works well, untill 255 lines are reached > (same > with other settings). Then there is another FF from the archv_dat. > I haven't > found out a way to let the archv_dat ignore the set number of lines > per page > or Archive to ignore the FF from archv_dat. Postamble ist set to NONE! > > Any cure for that problem? Or should I use the program with Archive > v2.38? > Maybe someone can supply Archive v2.38 to me, I can't find it at > the moment.
I had this problem perhaps eight years ago or so. I tried about seven different PRINTER_DATs before finding one that did the trick. One use of Archive is to print labels. I think in this case I set the number of lines per page to 9 and issued FF if there were less in a label. I had previously tried 255 lines per page but that certainly does not work. I also use an assembler routine in Archive programs to set the required special printer driver and reset the original driver when the program is finished. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
