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Printing a QRP via a PDF printer results in cut-off footer, can I prevent this?

I am generating various invoices, shipping manifests and similar documents via QRPs from an ERP program written in TD 4.1. When my customer just prints these regularly from the program to a normal printer, they come out fine. The customer also prints them to PDF via FreePDF XP, this happens from the printing dialogue (FreePDF XP being selected as a printer). This results in part of the right side and the footer being cut off.

Format-wise, the reports are using Paper Style A4, page margins are top=0.8, bottom=0.85, left=0.95, right=1.0. The PDF printer is also set to A4, but has no margin settings available.

I'm grasping for straws here, but is there any way I can make this work from within the report or possibly programmatically, or is this purely on the printer driver side?

Oh, decreasing the width/height is not an option for these documents, sadly.

Solution

  • Pity you don't use a newer version. With TD5 and newer you can create PDFs with the integrated Report Builder, so you don't need any 3rd party tool. Couple of ideas:

    • SalReportPrintToFile() and eMail the file.
    • SalPrtSetParmNum( PRT_nMarginTop, nMargin) ( i.e. adjust the margins via TD app for PDF's )
    • Have a separate .qrp for PDF's with the larger margins already preset in the qrp.