How do you standardize...

[NuclearNed]

The company for which I work has a whole bunch of legacy apps that were written in PowerBuilder. PB has its own reporting capabilities that are similar to Crystal Reports.

The problem I'm having is that some of the reports have so many fields that there isn't a spare pixel on the page. These reports print fine on some of our printers, but on other printers a blank page is being printed for every actual report page. What is happening is that apparently some printers can't handle the amount of information on a given page, so a pixel or two overflows onto another page, which is otherwise blank.

With all the standardization that Windows offers, it looks like there would be some way of forcing all printers to print exactly what I want.

 

[Markbnj]

Well, if the printable area exceeds the margins of the page then the printer driver will render another page. Same thing for page breaks.

If the problem is the content exceeding the margins, then you can set the printer properties to scale to the desired page size. However, if the report engine is generating extra page breaks you'll have to change the report definition.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Well, if the printable area exceeds the margins of the page then the printer driver will render another page. Same thing for page breaks.

If the problem is the content exceeding the margins, then you can set the printer properties to scale to the desired page size. However, if the report engine is generating extra page breaks you'll have to change the report definition.

Its the first scenario you mentioned - the printable area exceeds the margins of the page.

It just seems like there would be a more standardized way of defining the size of my report.