BUG: Labels Truncated When Printable Page Option Is Selected

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a

SYMPTOMS

Data is truncated from the left side of labels if you have selected the Printable Page option.

CAUSE

The Report Writer has data that occupies the non-printable area on the edge of the current printer driver's page. Many printers can't print within a certain margin from the edge of the page. This distance is generally around 1/4 to 1/2 inch.

WORKAROUND

Manually move the fields to the right to avoid the non-printable area of the current printer driver's page, or on the File menu, click Page Setup, and set the Print Area to Whole Page. Then increase the left margin setting to a larger number (at least 0.25 inches).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The problem is specifically that even if the Printable Page option of the Print Area (Page Setup dialog box) is selected, the data on labels in the left column of certain label layouts are truncated. Changing this option to either Printable Page or Whole Page (its two choices) makes no difference in the printed output.

The affected labels are:

   Left Side Truncated
   -------------------
   5096
   5196
   5260
   5660
   5896

   Top Line Truncated
   ------------------
   OML  101    (24   x 102mm)
   Tab1 107.23 (23.4 x 107mm)
   Tab1  89.23 (23.4 x  89mm)
   Tab2 107.23 (23.4 x 107mm)
   Tab2  89.23 (23.4 x 107mm)

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. On the File menu, click New, click Label, and then click New File.

2. In the New Label dialog box, scroll down to Avery Label number 5096. Highlight it, and click OK.

3. On the Report menu, click Quick Report.

4. Locate the Customer table in then \Vfp\Samples\Data directory, select it, and click OK.

5. In the Quick Report dialog box, click Fields. Then in the Field Picker dialog box, move cust_id, company, and contact from the All Fields list to the Selected Fields list. Click OK in the Field Picker dialog box.

6. Click the vertical Field Layout button (indicating a column of fields), and click OK in the Quick Report dialog box.

7. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and click Printable Page in the Print Area option group. Click OK.

8. On the File menu, click Print Preview.