Re: Supress printing of blank last page

[David Donnelly <Dave@ISISBIO.COM>]

I've had to suppress that final formfeed.  I had to use

        declare-layout formfeed=no

        declare-procedure before-page=printheadings

and in printheadings:

        encode '<12>' into $gPageTopDirect
        print-direct nolf $gPageTopDirect

This will do it for LP-type printers at least.  You could probably work up a
similar thing for Postscript.  Lotsa work ... wish I had a
"suppress-final-formfeed=yes" parameter.

At 08:52 PM 10/22/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Dave,
>
>I assume that you're using -printer:hp or -printer:lp.  If so,
>I don't know if there is a way to supress the final form-feed
>in the report, if that's what you're trying to supress. Right?
>
>You might get away with running the output file (.lis) through
>a post-process which strips off the final form feed.  You could
>write this in SQR (using OPEN, READ, and CLOSE).
>
>Ray
>
>> Is there a command that will supress printing the last page of a report?
>> (SQR3, UNIX, Oracle)
>>
>> I have a program that performs duplex printing for certain conditions
>> (i.e., not on the back of every page), and part of the logic is to issue
>> the new-page command after printing some inter-office routing information
>> on the back of a page (this prints the information on the back of the page
>> without any headings due to a flag, and prepares the next page for the line
>> and distribution information for the next voucher).  After the new-page
>> prints the routing address on the back, it prepares a "new blank page."
>> However, when there are no more records to process (from the SELECT), there
>> is no need for another page and this blank page prints upon completion of
>> the program.  If I could add a command in a WRAPUP procedure to erase or
>> cancel the "current page", that would be the ticket.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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