<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Thanks for your suggetions kyley. We end up having to render everything to an image and rotate it 180 degrees.</div><div><br></div><div>To maintain fine print quality we use Tmetafilecanvas instead of Tcanvas, which makes rotating much harder. But we got there at the end.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Cheng</div><div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 14/07/2010, at 3:49 PM, "Kyley Harris" <<a href="mailto:Kyley@harrissoftware.com">Kyley@harrissoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p><font size="2">The printing options are normally just an indication to the software<br>
of how it should print. They are not normally done by the operating<br>
system.<br>
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you may need to render your report to a graphic, then rotate and print<br>
the graphic.<br>
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Cheng Wei (FMI) <<a href="mailto:chengw@fmi.co.nz">chengw@fmi.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> We need to print a report upside down as the preprinted paper (roll) can<br>
> only be loaded in one direction.<br>
><br>
> We set the "Rotate 180 degree" option in the "Printing Preferences..."<br>
> screen and it prints from Word etc upside down as ecpected.<br>
><br>
> However when print from our Delphi app (BDS 2006, FastReport) the pages<br>
> always come out upright.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone on the list help with this?<br>
><br>
> Kind Regards<br>
><br>
> Cheng Wei<br>
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