Some obscure printing problems with Legacy may reflect a design quirk. It appears that, when it loads, Legacy looks at whatever is the default printer and adopts what it finds as its printing environment. Preview of a report then shows how it will appear - with those settings and via that printer. That's fine if there is only one printer, or the default one is to be used. If not, changing settings prior to printing may or may not have effect, depending upon whether particular Legacy settings persist, and combination results may be bizarre. The simple cure is to set the wanted printer to be default and then restart Legacy.
Background and example: We run Legacy 6 on a Vista laptop which was once USB connected to a portable printer for making postcards. For obvious reasons, that was never used with Legacy, and it has been disconnected for a couple of years. Recently, a driver for our network printer was installed. Needing to print some Legacy Descendant reports, I previewed and found output on the screen postcard size and aspect ratio. No Legacy settings or options appeared to fix that, though portrait/landscape changed orientation. I then formatted a test page with a framing line and used the print dialog to select the printer, page orientation and size. That printed a neatly framed, postcard sized text block, landscape orientated, in the top left corner of a letter size, portrait orientated sheet. Designating the network printer as default and restarting Legacy removed the problem. It's my impression that most programs are written such that the operating system printer dialog is used to define printer and printing parameters, with preview available from that. If Legacy needs to do otherwise, a note in the appropriate Help file would be useful. kb Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
