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 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 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 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 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 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 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 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 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 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 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 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com