dot matrix
Can I print report on dot matrix printer (unlimited page length)?
If not, when will dot matrix feature is available?
Thank you.
If not, when will dot matrix feature is available?
Thank you.
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I have 2 object: one is label, one is date field (Date: [Current Date]. They are supposed to be printed at the same line. But when I export to text/dot matrix mode, they are not printed on the same line.
I have search other reporting solutions for .net other than fastreport and do some comparisons. I think fast report is better in most of the cases, especially the run time designer, matrix report object, easy integration with custom .net objects. But there are little cases that prevent fastreport from becoming the most ideal reporting solutions. One of them is unlimited page width and length (Active report can handle this situation).
So, is it possible to add this two functionalities in next fastreport.net build. Because I think I will choose fastreport amongs other reporting solutions, but I need these two functionalities badly.
Thanks.
To do so in FastReport, open page settings dialog and set paper width/height to big values (for ex. 100x100m). When printing such report, you may use one of the printing modes that allow to split big page per standard A4 sheets.
i am printing a receipt in dot matrix printer its not coming correct what settig of fr shud i keep to make it print correctly i mean which fonts and what text option i shud use clear type or regular or alpha or default ??
please provide some help with printing in dot matrix
with regards
k
You can print on dot-matrix printer using two modes:
1) regular mode (slow). Just press the "Print" button in the preview.
2) text mode (fast, but not wysiwyg, you have no control over bold, italic etc). Press the "Export" button in the preview window and select "Text file".
is there any way to print directly with report.print in "text file" format ?
and if i am printing directly from print button on a normal epson receipt printer the reports is printing but i am not able to see the words clearly its getting more big and consisted i donno why ??
i tried on thermal printer working fine but on any receipt dot matrix printer its not printing properly i tried changing fonts and everything but din succeed !!
plz tell me some method to optimize report for dotmatrix format or directly print in textfile format ??
with regards
kutub
No, there is no "one-button-click" method of doing this.
FastReport uses standard GDI+ text drawing, so I can't fix anything in this case. The only thing you can do is to change some printer driver settings (resolution, for example).
The report is always printed in 2 pages for each page, in other words, always skip one empty page after printing one page.
I attach the prepared report and the scanned printout.
I tried to print the exported text manually, but I cannot access the report papersize, because it is marked as private property.
Can you open them as public properties, so I can access them if I want to print the text file manually.
By the way, If I use Y Scale more than 1, the report is printed incorrectly.
Line object is always not exported correctly, no matter which Y Scale is chosen (incorrect position).
Thanks.
The Text export is not accurate nor wysisyg now. We plan to rewrite it in the next major version of FastReport (I can't say now when it will be available).
Is this feature available in current version?
I'm looking for reporting tool with support for this. Most of my other reporting requirement are met by fast report, but one part is fast printing support for dot matrix printing with bit of formatting.