Environment: OI 3.2 + Win NT

1. Empty page between printings

If I print 3 lists from inside a program, I get an empty

page between printing 1 & 2 .. and between printing 2 & 3 ..

However .. there's no leading empty page, nor is there an

empty page after the third printing.

If I chose to run the same program immediatly again, I

get no empty page between printing 3 (from the first session) and

printing 1 (in the second session)

How come ?? How can I get around this behaviour ???

2. Page no

Using the same program as above, @page isn't re-initialized 

between the printings, unless I do an @page=0, however if I

re-run the program again, it starts from page #1 again .. how come ?

(this is no major problem, as it's solved in the program by setting @page)

3. Changing between landscape n portrait on the fly

cms 2 b impossible .. after one day experimenting with this I found

out that the Landscape/Portrait property doesn't have anything to do with the printer you are using at the moment, instead it's a

property of the application. This implies that the solution to

switching between P n L has to be possible from inside the

application.

Why isn't this possible from the (excellent) printsetup function?

This is the little test-program I used for testing #1 n #2

compile subroutine x(dummy)

@page=1

heading "test1 'P'"

printer on

page

print "en rad"

page

print "en rad till"

printer off

@page=0

heading "test2 'P'"

printer on

page

print "en rad"

page

print "en rad till"

printer off

@page=0

heading "test3 'P'"

printer on

page

print "en rad"

page

print "en rad till"

printer off

return

Concerning your questions:

#1 - Does this happen on all workstations, or only specific machines? Any differences between machines (OS, client software) would be helpful. Also, is the printer located on a network, locally? If it is on a network, how are you connecting to the printer?

#2 - What is the code that you are using when this happens? Is it the same as the code you have included at the end of your post? If this is the case, what are you trying to re-initialize the page number to?

#3 - Check out this thread.

Hope this helps.

-Chris Revelation

1.I've confirmed this behaviour on NT only .. I'll get back to you after I've tried it on win95 ..

2. It's the same code .. I have to reinitialize @page to 0 (zero) between the printings ..

3. HTTP - Error 404 .. I'm very interested in that page, so pls

try again .. This is kinda urgent for me

/bengt

Bengt,

He means this thread.

(Chris - you used "rev-web" as server name.)

- Oystein -

ok .. but what is OIPI then ????

OIPI is a third party printer management product. It's available from Splaver Software.

Many people swear by it, and Sprezzatura uses it for our S/LIST product.

It's worth taking a look at.

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

thx, I will take a look on it

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