[DUG] Report Builder/Printer driver oddity

[russell]

Hi John

 

I have seen this behaviour before in Report Builder. As best as I recall the problem has been mine with an error I made affecting RB. I do not recall the details …!

Try looking in your RB report [Calc] tab. Any errors signalled there?

If you ask for a report [Preview] does the page count run on? Might there be some error in the SQL for data?

 

Russell

 

From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013 10:15 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Report Builder/Printer driver oddity

 

Came across an odd one – any ideas anyone?

 

Delphi 5 Report using Builder 6 printing courier ticket labels to a label printer (Zebra Z4M Plus).

 

Added a 2d barcode, all worked fine except could not get the left margin OK.   Investigated if it could be a driver bug, so got a later driver which came with a calibrate function that solved the page margin layout problems.

 

-* BUT *-

 

one oddity remains:

 

To print the label one has to go into the printer options and click OK.   If one does not (and just clicks the Print button), the Report Builder print dialog comes up with either one of

 

“Accessing data” and hangs

 

“Printing page xx”   where the the number keeps increasing forever (and doesn’t print)

 

Anyone have an idea what in Report Builder could be the issue?

 

Have tried everything could think of, such as setting 1-pass or 2-pass printing (options in Report Builder).   Data is coming from standard TClientDataSet via Report Builder data pipeline as normal.   The only thing added was an image which has the 2d barcode encoded into it.

 

John Bird

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