Re: Printing on Legal size paper (8.5,14) - sqr2.5

["William G. Northen" <wgn3c@VIRGINIA.EDU>]

RAM

Try changing the font Size to a smaller font.

This should give you more lines per page.

If you need 100 lines on a page only 8.5 inches long and 14 inches wide
landscape mode legal size you probably need fontsize 8 or smaller.


At 19:01 05/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Steve Krim wrote:
>>
>> At 07:00 PM 5/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> >Hello Everybody
>> >               My name is Ram,and i am a new member to the usersgroup.
>> >
>> >I am having a problem in printing a report on a legal size paper.
>> >we are using sqr 2.5. for  Peoplesoft 5.0
>> >
>> >  my report size is 100 lines long and 80 columns wide.I cloned
>> >setup01.sqc and setup01A.sqc and changed the page-size to 100 80 in the
>> >clone of  setup01A.sqc.I am changing the point-size and line-size to
>> >accomadate the report in the legal size paper using the 'DECLARE
>> >PRINTER' command.
>> >
>> >  When i print the report,it breaks at 80th line and then on,it starts
>> >printing blank pages and some portions of the data in a very random
>> >way.If i use the
>> >page-size that was already there in setup01A.sqc (page-size 79 125),i am
>> >getting
>> >the print out on two pages.On the first page physically,there is enough
>> >blank space to fit the second page as well.
>> >
>> >I would very much appreciate if anyone could suggest a possible
>> >solution.
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >Ram
>> >
>> Ram,
>>
>> In the init string PS uses in the setup sqc's, there is also a pcl command
>> for page len I believe, take a look there.
>>
>> Steve Krim
>> SK Professional Services Inc.
>> (810) 566-7753
>
>Hi Steve,
>        I tried changing the printer-init.I gave  <27>&l3A for changing
>to legal size.I tried changing the number of text lines also(from 88 to
>100).I am still getting the same results as before.
>
>Thankyou for your suggestion.I think something is overriding the
>settings
>that were made in the printer-init.I'll keep trying.
>
>Thanks
>Ram.
>
>
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