Reuben Cummings
accessd at gfconsultants.com
Fri Jan 7 13:48:48 CST 2011
I'll check, Stuart. Reuben Cummings GFC, LLC 812.523.1017 -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:35 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K - Labels changing size Another WAG: Has someone change the Font Scaling in Windows from the default 96 DPI to "Large Fonts" - 120 DPI? -- Stuart On 7 Jan 2011 at 10:22, Reuben Cummings wrote: > I wasn't clear. These aren't labels - as in mailing labels. > These are labels on a regular report. > For example... > > Employee Hours Pay rate Pay Type > Total pay > A 8.00 10.00 R > 80.00 > A 2.00 15.00 O > 30.00 > > The first line (Employee, Hours, etc) - those are the labels affected. > It will print more like > > Employ Hour Pay Pay Total > > The label control has not changed size - it looks like the font has > grown or the spacing has changed. The hours column will also appear > cut off is there are more than 10 hours. For example, 64.00 hours > looks like 4.00 hours. > > On one other report I found two small problems. > 1. A label that is vertical (to be read when the report is turned on > its side) the very bottom of every letter is cut off. It can still be > read - just the very bottom is gone. Like a 'E' would almost look > like an "F" 2. On the same report there is a text box that sits > inside a large 'rectangle'. The bottom of the rectangle sits right on > the bottom of the text box. The rectangle has always shown perfectly, > but now, on this computer, the portion of the rectangle sharing the > text box control edge does not shoe - like the text box has grown. > > Reuben Cummings > GFC, LLC > 812.523.1017 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Debbie > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:11 AM To: Access Developers > discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K - Labels > changing size > > If they used the other printer to print the labels before, they may > not have noticed this problem: > > I have had printers that had smaller print areas than the printer I > designed it on. Access will resize the whole report on these printers. > Not really apparent, but deadly on labels. Printing to PDF first is a > good solution. 2007 and 2010 have some printer coding that can help > the issue too. > > Debbie > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:28 PM, "AccessD" <accessd at gfconsultants.com> > wrote: > > > In access 2000, I have a problem with a report. > > This report has not changed in years and has always worked > > perfectly. > > > > Now, only on one computer, most of the labels are being trimmed. > > Like either the label is actually changing size or the font is being > > increased. There is also one text box being altered. > > > > Actually, there are a couple minor alterations on a couple other > > reports, but nothing major like this - this is bad enough the report > > is unusable as is. > > > > This same computer worked perfectly until about two weeks ago. > > Of course, they don't remember doing anything to the computer. > > The only change they know of is, when they moved the computer, they > > only connected one printer back up rather than the two previously > > connected > > > > I went thru printer settings. Made sure the font is installed > > (standard Arial). Tried to restore the computer to a date before the > > error showed up and the computer could not be restored. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > 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