Kbase P107490: Report Builder: Printer does not hole punch reports
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
8/10/2005 |
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Status: Unverified
SYMPTOM(s):
Report Builder
Reports are not hole-punched after turning on the Hole-Punch option via Report Builder
Using a Minolta Pi6500e PCL6 printer which has Punch unit installed, allowing print jobs to be automatically hole-punched
Printing the report to a file shows that the control codes for the printer to enable the hole-punch do not change despite changing the setting in Report Builder Printer Setting
Hole-punch does not work when selected in Report Builder's Designer module
Hole-punch does not work when selected in Report Builder's Runtime Engine
Hole-punch option is not enabled by default in Printing Preferences for the printer
Enabling the hole-punch option in Printing Preferences, thereby changing the default setting for the system, results in reports being hole-punched
Hole-punch works when selected from a 4GL application with SYSTEM-DIALOG PRINTER-SETUP
Hole-punch works when selected from other applications such as Microsoft Word
CAUSE:
This is expected behaviour. Report Builder takes the settings of the selected printer driver when it is printing. If the hole-punch option is selected in the printer driver settings then Report Builder adopts that setting.
FIX:
Report Builder contains no options for controlling the hole-punch unit. The options available in Printing Preferences of a printer must be turned on/off at a system-level (making them the default for all print jobs) before they are applied by Report Builder.