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Monochrome Always
Color
Page Numbers
Titles
RepeatHeader
Margins
In a large proportion of instances, the user will be satisfied with the results and will have to decide, at this point, on determining values of a number of aspects of Roboprint:
GridToFit Property
When the Grid is too large Roboprint adapt the print of the columns in two ways:
Split: When Roboprint finish to print all the columns that fit in to the page, and continue with the remainders till all the columns are printed.
Shrink: Zooming out the grid to fit in to the page.
Monochrome Always
This will cause the PREVIEW to be black and white even when Roboprint.Color Property = V_Color. This is recommended for documents consisting of many pages. A single-color document will require much less working memory and the work will be carried out more quickly.
Color
V_Monochrome will cause background colors to be printed white. Lines, forms and text will be black.
Page Numbers
Prints the page number at the bottom of the page.
Titles
FootTitle – TopTitle – this is for headers and footers. In order to compose a title of more than one line, you must add the code
line:FirstLineString & Chr$(10) & SecondLineString etc.
TopFootAlign can be: 0-Left, 1-Right, or 2-Center
RepeatHeader
This allows printing titles or lists of tables on every page.
Margins
TopMargin, LeftMargin, FootMargin and RightMargin.
Thevalues represent centimeters (approximate).
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Tables
When Controls appears beside the table, they will be printed under the table.
Solution: Determine the value of SideBySide property to True .
Shortcomings of the solution:
If there are unseen columns in the table, the table will be printed on the left side in order to allow all of the columns to be printed. In this case, controls may be printed on the table. If the table has many lines and the printing is extended to an additional page or pages, be certain that beside it Control will be printed, but only on the final
page on which the table will appear. In order to prevent this, the Control must be placed so that its Top Property will be smaller than that of the table.
Not all of the columns can fit on the page
If you must scroll to the right in order to see all of the columns which you typed in the table, the table will be wider than the space that it occupies on the screen.
Solution: Set the Orientation Property to Landscape, or set the GridToFit to 2- Shrink If an additional small amount of space is required , otherwise set GridToFit to 1- Split(default) or 3-SplitNewPage.
RichText background appear black.
Solution:
Set the BackColor and any color in RichText that is a System Color to a Standard color. Roboprint "see" the System Color in Richtext as though it's black.
Containers
If you are working on Container with Scroll Bars, you can assure its
location at 0,0 in BeforePrint_Event and it can be returned to its place by AfterPrint_Event.
Size of Printed Objects Related to the Screen
The width of regular A4 paper is 12,000 dots. If the definition which you have chosen for your computer screen is 800 x 600 for small fonts,
there will be proper coordination between the size of the objects as you see them and their size on the printed paper. However, if you chose the definition of large fonts, for example, the printed size will be 25%
smaller because in this case Screen.Width=9000.
If you want complete coordination, you must select the Roboprint.Zoom Property for 125. If you want to be certain that the size which you see on the screen will remain constant for every definition of the user, you must add Ocx AdaptoScreen Control (Robosize) which is found in our Download page
This will insure proper coordination between the size of the form and the objects of different definitions and will transmit the information to Roboprint in order to correct for differences.
Placement of the Document on Paper
You can determine the size of margins through Properties of Roboprint; however, you may wish to move the printing left or right without changing the nonprinted (margins)part of the paper. This is very important in the event that you are working in RightToLeft=True. This movement is carried out by RightOffsetProperty while 1 equals approximately 1 cm.
A negative value will move the printing to the right.
Dialogue Box of the Printer
This is to change the printer and its properties.
Roboprint.ShowPrinterAlways = True will cause the Dialogue box to appear before every print command is sent to the printer. In order to cause the Dialogue box to appear by utilization of the code, type Roboprint.ShowPrinter.
Cancel the printing of Control
In order to cancel the printing of Control, select the value of its Tag
at noprint. In order to determine the printing of Control will begin in every case on a new page, select Tag value to newpage.
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you will see from the beginning the final appearance of your forms.
Unfortunately, many programmers choose to utilize various strange substitutes. Some of the most widespread ideas in use include:
MainForm
This is a form with buttons which can call up various other forms. This method, which is essentially an imitation of the Dos screen, creates an unorganized screen while essentially foregoing most of the advantages of working through Windows such as the Toolbox and the Main Menu. On each occasion on which a form is called up, the user must return to MainForm.
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