Re: Direct printing from Forms 4.5

Try to use MS Excel and OLE. First you must create Invoice template (.xls) and second parse the parameters to it and send print command.

Albert Ratzlaff wrote:
>
> After using Forms 4.5 and Reports 2 to print invoices, I found that the
> response time is unacceptably slow. It takes 22 seconds from pressing
> the accept button till the printing starts, on a 486 with 16M RAM. I can
> get it down to 11 seconds with a Pentium and 32M RAM.
> Now I want to try to print directly to the printer from Forms, without
> using Report. I'd appreciate any help I can get, and I'd post back the
> results once I get the thing working.
>
> Regards
> Albert Ratzlaff

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