Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Wed Aug 8 11:08:41 CDT 2007
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
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[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
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
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Uh-oh. What problems did you have with the Printer object? Is that the
same as using Application.Printer?
Rocky
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
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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
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:21 AM
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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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Importance: High
Rocky,
Not the neatest code in the world, but works for me:
Dim prnPrinter As Printer
Dim strDeviceName As String
Dim bolFoundPrinter As Boolean
strDeviceName = Printer.DeviceName ' Store current default
printer
bolFoundPrinter = False
For Each prnPrinter In Printers
If (prnPrinter.DeviceName = "NewPrinterName") Then
Set Printer = prnPrinter
bolFoundPrinter = True
' DO WHAT YOU WANT HERE TO PRINT
Exit For
End If
Next
' Change back to original default printer
For Each prnPrinter In Printers
If (prnPrinter.DeviceName = strDeviceName) Then
Set Printer = prnPrinter
Exit For
End If
Next
this is in VB6, so I assume should work in VBA for Access
Message Received: Aug 07 2007, 08:49 PM
From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software"
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
Cc:
Subject: [AccessD] Changing Default Printer
Dear List:
Slightly different request for changing printers to the one I had a few day
ago:
Is there an easy way to save the current windows default printer and change
to a user pre-selected printer (name stored in an local options table)?
This is for a distributable app so there's no way to know what the installed
printers are. The program needs to print to a PDF file. So the user has to
have a PDF printer installed. They pre-select it through a combo box on a
control panel loaded with all the installed printer names and the printer
name is saved in a local table. The app then runs at night without user
intervention triggered by windows scheduler. So when it runs these reports,
I need it to change the windows default printer to whatever printer they
select. And then change it back after I'm done printing.
MTIA
Rocky
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