printing a field

[robshortii]

Hi,

I need to print a field with the text that is typed into it exatcly as typed.

Is this possible? and if so how do i do it?

Thanks in advance, Rob

[QuinTech]

Hi, Rob. If your field doesn't print text exactly as it was typed, what does it print?

Jerry

[robshortii]

Hi Jerry,

I am trying to accomplish this:

I want to have a field that someone can type into. This (letter) is going to be different each time. So on that layout I want a field where the letter can be typed and to have a button to only print that field.

Right now if i were to try to print, it would just print the whole page.

Rob

[QuinTech]

I see. Just create a second layout that contains nothing but that field and print from there. It may be most convenient to script this so that the user is autmotically taken to the printing layout, the page is printed, and then the user is taken back to the original layout.

Merge fields are often helpful for letters. You may want to look into them a bit as well.

HTH,

J

[Søren Dyhr]

Let it be said initially - I have no way with the gear availiable to substantiate what I here suggests ...Wim might confirm??

With version 5-6 and win98 cound you use Send Message by making a calcfield that incapsule the field at hand into a COMMAND /C ...the field value... and > PRN

But I seem to remember that DOS printing to a USB-printer should be captured by an utility like:

http://www.dsbglobal.com/dosprinter/

--sd

[QuinTech]

What a cool idea, Soren!

I tested it here, and it does work. Assuming you have a printer on LPT1, make a calc text field named PrintCommand, equal to

"cmd /c echo " & theNameOfTheField & " >> lpt1"

Now a script with two steps:

Send Message [ Field: PrintCommand ]

Send Message [ Text: echo >> lpt1 ]

will print a plain-text version of the field.

J