Re: Output formatting for HP printers from client side

[Nathan Treadway <nathant@ONTKO.COM>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:52:27PM -0800, Donnell Rogers wrote:
> I am using SQR 3.x on a SYBASE/AIX server and am trying to run a client-side
> SQR report.   The client is running SQR on Windows 95.
>
> I am having trouble formatting the report.
> Standard SQR print phrasing such as :
>
> print 'nancy' (1,1)     ! line one, column one
> print 'bob' (0,0)       ! same line, immediately following previous
>
> is not producing the expected    nancybob    on the output.
> Instead the output looks like:  nancy   bob  .  There are 2.5 columns
> separating the names.
>

> The SQR call includes  -PRINTER:HP

Did you mean that the SQR call on both the client and the server include
this option?  Certainly one thing that could cause trouble is using
-printer:wp on the Windows side....

I haven't run into this problem myself, but another thing to double-check is
the font definitions in the .INI files (both client and server side).  It
may be that you are actually using different configurations between the two.
(I don't have an SQR3 manual here and I can't remember when font definition
settings were added to SQR.INI, maybe this doesn't apply.)

Finally, you might try FTPing (or whatever) the output you get from the run
on the client and try printing it from the server.  This may expose some
"problems" with the network print configuration from the MS-DOS machine.
(Sometimes they print queues try to be smart and do their own formatting,
which conflicts with SQR's.  The output is usally more broken than you
describe, but it's worth a try.)

(In general the output should be the same for both client and server, though
of course if the versions are different the output will not match
exactly...  Still, you might try compairing the output from the run of a
small program and see if it looks like the problem is in the generation of
the file or in the printing process.)

Hope this helps a little.

                                                Nathan

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