[AccessD] When is a report actually printed (vs previewed only)

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 6 23:50:19 CDT 2003


I think you can with Access 2003, you get a virtual printer called 
Microsoft Document Image Writer or you could install a PDF printer 
driver. There are a couple of free ones.

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software wrote:

>Plus, ironically, you can't preview a report if there's no printer
>installed.  I hate when that happens.
>
>Go figure.
>
>Rocky
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
><accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] When is a report actually printed (vs previewed only)
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>>On 7 Oct 2003 at 9:30, David Fenton wrote:
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>>>Hello again, I have searched archives and looked through recent
>>>newsgroups for Access Reports and found only a few tips on determining
>>>if a report is printed rather than just previewed. None of them seem
>>>to hit the mark I'm after.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any u-beaut ideas on how I can tell whether a report
>>>has been previewed or printed? I do not want to prevent my users from
>>>printing. In the OnClose event of the report I set a 'printed' flag.
>>>But one of my users correctly pointed out that previewing it is not
>>>the same as printing it. She can look at the report but change her
>>>mind and NOT print it. In that case she doesn't want the 'printed'
>>>flag to be set. I guess she's after a Cancel button on the print
>>>preview. I am not aware of any cancel methods on the print preview
>>>page. I know there is an OnPrint event, but it seems to apply to
>>>sections of the report, not the entire report itself.
>>>
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>>The on_print event fires when the report is displayed on screen as well.
>>As far as Access is concerned printing to the screen or saving the report
>>to a file is the same as printing to a printer.
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>>>I could have two buttons on the form - one preview and one print, then
>>>putting the flag setting into OnClick on the print button instead of
>>>the report itself, but it doesn't feel robust... Any ideas folks? Cheers
>>>David Ô¿Ô¬ Brisbane Australia
>>>
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>>The trouble with that option is that the user can still print  from the
>>preview in which case the flag won't be set.
>>
>>The other problem with any method of setting a flag programmatically is ,
>>what happens when the printer is not available/ has a paper jam/ runs out
>>of paper etc. Although some printer drivers with two way communication
>>can tell you some of these things, in many cases there is *no* way within
>>Access to be sure that the report was in fact printed.
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>>-- 
>>Stuart McLachlan
>>Lexacorp Ltd
>>Application Development,  IT Consultancy
>>http://www.lexacorp.com.pg
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