Gremlin in dreport

[Lerebours, Jose]

Douglas posted:
> 
> This is not really a problem with filepro, but it is with my
> application.
> 
> I have a Zebra QL420 printer (Wireless Thermal Label Printer), and it
> runs CPCL
> for the programming language.  Works great save one "LITTLE" detail
> (It's always the
> details isn't it).
> 
> Label prints fine if I create a text file, and send it via "LP".
> If filepro sends the same file, it adds a "Blank" line (Blank 
> meaning LF
> only on the line)
> at the end of the label, thus throwing the labels alignment off a line
> each time.
> 
> I can manually "edit" the output if I send the report to a text file,
> remove 
> the blank lines, and the output works.
> 
> Question is now .. Is there a way tell dreport to remove that final
> blank line from the report?
> or Can I remove a blank line from a file via script some how 
> (Added into
> the print Driver on unix)
> 
> Printer Driver is defined as "1" line form / "1" line printable.
> Output is 41 lines, yet it prints 42 (42nd being the Blank (LF) line)
> 
> 

Check your form definition and make sure that page length and lines
per page are no more than you expect.

That said, I did not know these printers care for blank lines
unless they were between X,Y coordinates and ^F__ fields.

Could you post a sample of your file?  As far as I know, nothing
outside your ^A and ^Z should affect your labels (these normally
print on 0,0 position and do not have any effect on labels (other
than the garbage that print at 0,0).

Have you tried re-calibrating your printer to properly recognize
your label size?

Regards;


Jose Lerebours