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debmckee Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2011	report formatting Nov 17^th, 2011 at 10:38pm	Print Post
	My report prints perfect..........providing I do a page set up of landscape and set scale to 60%........I am willing to do that but the other 20 people in the office won't! Even when I set up landscape in my command button (I use @printareport - html) it doesn't revert to landscape I am frustrated! HATE Sesame report function vs Q&A


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Steve_in_Texas Senior Member Offline No personal text Posts: 893 Location: San Antonio Joined: Feb 21^st, 2004	Re: report formatting Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 2:47am	Print Post
	Hopefully someone with report knowledge will respond to you. In the meantime, be sure to check out QuickReports from the left hand command menu. It's so simple to run reports this way, I haven't bothered taking the time to learn how to run 'full' reports.


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debmckee Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2011	Re: report formatting Reply #2 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 3:23pm	Print Post
	Unfortunately my report is huge (140 pages) and is run by approx. 10 people every Monday morning!


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: report formatting Reply #3 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 5:23pm	Print Post
	debmckee wrote on Nov 18^th, 2011 at 3:23pm: Unfortunately my report is huge (140 pages) and is run by approx. 10 people every Monday morning! 10 people each print out 140 pages every Monday? Do they really need to print it out? One of the nice things about HTML reports is that they show up in your browser and aren't limited by the size of paper.

	- Hammer The plural of anecdote is not data.
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debmckee Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2011	Re: report formatting Reply #4 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 6:00pm	Print Post
	yes they do, it is an inventory report and the sales dept use it to see what is available, etc. who bought from what lot in the past, etc. Its a lot of trees but we have a lot of product! If you are on the phone with someone you dont have time to set up a retrieve (we have over hundred items) and check availablility of just one item. But you can read it in a report without missing a beat.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: report formatting Reply #5 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 6:08pm	Print Post
	debmckee wrote on Nov 18^th, 2011 at 6:00pm: But you can read it in a report without missing a beat. Yes, but can't you read it from the screen instead of from a piece of paper?

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debmckee Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2011	Re: report formatting Reply #6 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 7:22pm	Print Post
	no


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Rick_R Full Member Offline Posts: 243 Joined: Jan 29^th, 2010	Re: report formatting Reply #7 - Nov 18^th, 2011 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	Any reason you can't set up a free PDF printer using something like DoPDF and print the report to that? By the way, in Adobe Acrobat ver 9, Menu -> Advanced -> Document Processing -> Manage Embedded Index -> click Embed Index ... fully indexes a document with a high-speed index (works great on Sesame's User and Programming Guides btw). In Acrobat or Adobe Reader Shift+Ctrl+F will display a list of *all* occurrences of the search term (versus Ctrl+F that just shows the next one).


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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1351 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: report formatting Reply #8 - Nov 25^th, 2011 at 5:09am	Print Post
	If you really need it on paper, you could do a page set up of landscape and set scale to 60%, then "print" it to a PDF printer. Which will actually create a PDF file that you can give to the others, to print out on paper. PDF995 is an economical choice for creating PDF files, but I'm sure some of the other users here will have many other good suggestions, too.

	Carl Underwood CDU Computer Consulting LLC Epsom, New Hampshire
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debmckee Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2011	Re: report formatting Reply #9 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 5:02pm	Print Post
	Sounds good Carl, however.......how do you set scale to 60% in a command??


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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1351 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: report formatting Reply #10 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 3:02am	Print Post
	debmckee wrote on Nov 28^th, 2011 at 5:02pm: Sounds good Carl, however.......how do you set scale to 60% in a command?? You wouldn't. You would do everything the same as you have been, except that you would print to the PDF995 printer, rather than to a physical printer. It will be listed as another printer along side your regular ones. When you select PDF995 as your printer, you will be prompted for a filename, and the result is sent to that file instead of a real printer and paper.

	Carl Underwood CDU Computer Consulting LLC Epsom, New Hampshire
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