[AccessD] Change printer

Joseph O'Connell joconnell at indy.rr.com
Mon Jan 12 23:33:09 CST 2004


Joshua,

Thank you.  This site has a lot of good information.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua B <lists at jbsolutions.com.au>
To: Access Developers discussion and <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Date: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Change printer


|Hello Joseph O'Connell,
|
|Have a look here... http://www.mvps.org/access/reports/rpt0009.htm
|
|HTH
|
|======= At 2004-01-12, 11:23:00 you wrote: =======
|
|>Cross posted to Access-L and AccessD
|>
|>I thought this was discussed recently, but I cannot find the solution in
the
|>archives.
|>
|>Win 2000
|>Access 2000
|>
|>Is there an easy way to change the output device for a report?  An
|>application has several reports that are normally sent to a specific
|>printer.  Now the client wants the ability to selectively create a PDF
using
|>Adobe Distiller and have the PDF sent as an attachment to an email
message.
|>Because this procedure must be totally automated, having the print dialog
|>box popup is not a viable solution.
|>
|>I know that this could be accomplished by having a second set of reports
|>that are already set to output to Distiller, but this would create a
|>maintenance problem to ensure that any changes made to a printed report
are
|>also made to the Distiller report.  What I am looking for is code that can
|>change the destination to Distiller and then change it back to the
original
|>destination after the PDF is created.
|>
|>Does anyone have the code to to this?  Or can someone point me to the API
|>that can read and set the printer for a specific report?
|>
|>Thanks.
|>
|>Joe O'Connell
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|Best regards.
|Joshua B
|lists at jbsolutions.com.au
|www.jbsolutions.com.au
|2004-01-13
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