Anne,   
      
   What version of Paradox are you using? If 10 or greater, ISTR I had some   
   problems doing this with 10 quite a while back, and with Bertil's help   
   worked out to set the paper size (A4) using the old syntax, and then set   
   clip-to-width, orientation etc using the new, dynarray syntax.   
      
   Anne Wainwright wrote:   
   > Hi all, (and best for 2009)   
   >   
   > I had to cure a problem of printing a report, the windows default   
   > printer driver would pop up each time and (on Pdox alone,and only late   
   > this past year) it decided to start with a postcard sized default paper   
   > size. No way to keep the default at A4 and clip-to-width set.   
   >   
   > Looking at the pdox examples I saw the PrinterOptionInfo type variable   
   > which allowed to set certain requirements, and the ReportPrintInfo type   
   > which allowed to set others, with some overlap. Neither would set all that   
   > I wanted. Yet the examples shown for each both concluded with   
   > print(varname). Thus I saw an either-or situation.   
   >   
   > I did quite easily get it to work, and my basic code structure is here   
   >   
   > var   
   > prnOptions	PrinterOptionInfo   
   > repInfo		ReportPrintInf0   
   > ; other var items   
   > endVar   
   >   
   > ; set printer options showing overlap item and wanted item   
   > prnOptions.Orientation = prnPortrait   
   > prnOptions.PaperSize = prnA4   
   >   
   > ; set report printing options showing overlap item and wanted item   
   > repInfo.orient = PrintPortrait   
   > repInfo.panelOptions = PrintClipToWidth   
   >   
   > ; lots of other code follows to generate report thisbuy.rsl   
   >   
   > if printerSetOptions(prnOptions) then   
   > thisbuy.print(repInfo)   
   > else   
   > errorShow ("Could not set printer options.")   
   > endIf   
   >   
   > ; more code   
   >   
   > thus I left the printerSetOptions as just set and 'printed' the repInfo   
   > ones. I didn't try it the other way around, but this seemed the 'right'   
   > thing to try.   
   >   
   > Well it works fine, but any comments welcome on this small matter. Is   
   > this the best approach, are the two variable each typically used under   
   specific   
   > circumstances?   
   >   
   > regards   
   > Anne   
   >   
   >   
      
      
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