How To Use the Default Windows Printer in Visual FoxPro

Last reviewed: October 18, 1996
Article ID: Q138396

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 5.0

SUMMARY

The Report Writer in Visual FoxPro saves specific printer settings in the .frx file. Sometimes, a user may want the report to always print to the default Windows printer.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps will remove specific printer settings from the report file:

Open the report as a table:
USE MYREPORT.FRX
Locate the record that holds the printer information:
LOCATE FOR Objtype = 1 AND Objcode = 53
Remove the printer settings:
REPLACE Tag WITH "" REPLACE Tag2 WITH "" REPLACE Expr WITH ""
Close the report table:
USE

At this point, the printer settings have been removed, and REPORT FORM will always print to the default Windows printer.

REFERENCES

For more information about controlling the printer for a report, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q133163
   TITLE     : How to Control Printer Attributes for a Report at Run Time

Additional reference words: 5.00 3.00 VFoxWin
KBCategory: kbprint kbhowto
KBSubcategory: FxprintGeneral

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Last reviewed: October 18, 1996
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