Bryan Carbonnell
Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca
Thu Aug 21 08:08:30 CDT 2003
William,
Why didn't I see the obvious.
Why not just merge to the printer and NOT to a document?
That way the user doesn't have to print the document manually?
Just before the line:
objWord.MailMerge.Execute
add
objWord.MailMerge.Destination = wdSendToPrinter
Just a thought.
Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca
>>> wdhindman at bellsouth.net 20-Aug-03 10:56:20 PM >>>
...ok ...just don't ask how I get into these things ...and if this seems
like a JC post, I really don't want to hear about it :(
...I have a pretty good client who has been printing badges for his
tradeshows from a db I wrote for him ...merging to a Word document and
printing on preformatted badges ...piece of cake.
...now he's decided that with his nifty new $18K heavy duty high speed color
printer (NEVER buy a Minolta printer) that he can do the entire print job
in-house ...including some heavy duty badge graphics ...so after untold
hours (paid hourly) of formatting this wonderful new badge with umpteen
changes upon umpteen changes we finally get to the dirty deed of printing
badges for a forthcoming show ...test pass of a few hundred records runs
fine ...he's impressed ...I'm relieved ...go on to next client :)
...his badge person runs the badge print process on the entire list and
everything on the db side works fine ...in this case there are 4200+ badges
to print ...and therein lies my tale of woe :(
...the new improved graphics in-house badge has four records per 11x17 sheet
...and those 4200 records when merged into a new word document produce a
file more than 75mb in size ...Word chokes at 32mb ...boy does it ever
choke! :(((((
...complete redo of the badge template doc cuts the doc size by a quarter
...can't seem to squeeze any more out of it :(
...so I have to somehow cut the size of the file significantly ...I want it
under 20mb so that editing is halfway reasonable.
...I thought about splitting the file into four parts at the point of
producing the merged document ...this would be the cleanest solution from
the user standpoint ...they'd just get four print-jobs instead of one ...but
I'm not a Word guru by any means and have no clue how to do that in the VERY
short timeframe I have to work with ...but if there is a Word guru out there
my current code is:
Function BuyerBadges()
Dim objWord As Word.Document
Set objWord = GetObject("F:\Document Masters\Buyer
Documents\BuyerBadges.doc", "Word.Document")
' Make Word visible.
objWord.Application.Visible = True
' Set the mail merge data source as the JemsXP database.
objWord.MailMerge.OpenDataSource _
Name:="C:\Program Files\JemsXP\JemsXP.mdb", _
LinkToSource:=True, _
Connection:="TABLE tblTempBuyerBadges", _
SQLStatement:="Select * from [tblTempBuyerBadges] WHERE
(((tblTempBuyerBadges.PrintFlag)= True))"
' Execute the mail merge.
objWord.MailMerge.Execute
End Function
...assuming I can't successfully split the document at the merge point, it
seems that selecting only a partial range of records to print at one time is
the next best solution ...it isn't very user friendly but if it'll work,
that's life. I currently use a "Select" button on a continuous form to set a
print flag on every record in a temp table and then use the Print Flag as
the where condition in the merge sql as above ...individual records can be
selected from the bound form as well but I can't very well ask the users to
click on a thousand individual records ...so I need to change the select
code below to pick a range of records to print as well as retain a "Print
All" option. ...the thing is I'm brain dead at the moment and can't think of
how best to go about implementing it ...any help for the battle weary would
be deeply appreciated ...I have to have this working eleven short hours from
now :((((((
Private Sub cmdSelect_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_cmdSelect_Click
DoCmd.SetWarnings False
DoCmd.OpenQuery "qryBuyerBadgesSelect"
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
Me.Refresh
Exit_cmdSelect_Click:
Exit Sub
Err_cmdSelect_Click:
MsgBox err.Description
Resume Exit_cmdSelect_Click
End Sub
Private Sub cmdPrintSelected_Click()
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord
DoCmd.Close acForm, "frmBuyerBadges"
BuyerBadges
End Sub
William Hindman
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth,
his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work,
to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to
make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
-- Thomas Wolfe
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