Re: Oracle Reports Win98 vs WinXP

It could also be a paper size problem.
Oracle forms defaults to some US paper size, while the rest of the world uses A4. US size is longer and thinner than A4. Once the forms are created, you cannot easily change the paper size, and most people would not notice that the report is "too thin" for the paper.
It depends on what the printer driver does, does it "shrink to fit". You can also get problems because the dimensions of A4 are irrational numbers (because the aspect ratio is the square root of 2). Depending on rounding error, and also rounding error if one set of software is using inches, and one set cm; you can get the situation where the printer driver is specifying what it thinks is A4, but according to the printer it is 0.0001 mm too long for A4, and uses a second page.

Check the paper size setting on your printer drivers, and on the printers.

P.S. You say "Dot matrix printers". Does this imply you are using simple text printer, and fan-fold paper with sprocket holes? If so the font probably doesn't come into it. Received on Tue Nov 08 2005 - 06:56:49 CST