[AccessD] Changing Default Printer

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Aug 8 12:59:59 CDT 2007


The alternatives (we used Amyuni) require coding and then installation
on the target machine.  I'm not sure you would be any better off,
especially if you need to get this working fast.  On the other hand,
several of the PDF printers you can license on the web include VBA
sample code to get you started. 

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

Any good alternatives that you know of?

Rocky
 




 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

On the other hand, it may cause you more problems.  If you are using
generic code to print to PDF, you won't be able to control page size,
orientation, or anything else.  Nor will you be able to create it with a
useful name, which may not be what your user needs.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

This is a work in progress so I don't have precise answers yet.  But,
the plan is to have the user install whatever PDF printer they like .
In the control panel of the Automated Email System there's a combo box
with all of the installed printers.  They pick their PDF printer and
it's saved in a local options table.  So they'll be providing their own
PDF printer.
Which might finesse the problem you had.

Rocky





 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

Um ... Is this PDF printer something you provide in your app?  We've
found that we needed to include an installer for our clients to
reinstall their PDF printer when it went sideways, and we ran into
problems if a full version of Adobe Acrobat was installed on the same
machine.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:09 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

Well, that won't be a problem for my app.  Al I want to do it have the
user switch to a PDF printer for reports which will then be attached to
emails.


Rocky



 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

OY!! After all this time I don't recall.  I know I wrote printer object
based code to replace all our old code to set page size properly and
then after testing it a bit, I threw it out and went back to the
original code.
I don't think it was a problem with selecting the printer, it was trying
to manipulate the page settings that gave us problems.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:45 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

Uh-oh.  What problems did you have with the Printer object?  Is that the
same as using Application.Printer?

Rocky
 




 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

A2002 was the first version to have a printer object.  I have to tell
you, though, that we tried it and went back to API calls as more
consistent and reliable.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:21 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer

What version of Access has that Printer object?  And that code would go
into the report in the load or open event?  The code I found that I
posted yesterday works in A2K3, it's real short, but does it at the OS
level, which is probably more sketchy than doing it inside Access
itself. What to you think?

Rocky





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