X of Y

[Gary Olman]

 Thank you all, but here is the precise problem. I am printing invoices in a
batch process. Some of the invoices are 1 page long so page 1 of 1 is called
for, some are more than 1 some are 2 pages long some are 3 and so on. The
page number should total on the last page of each invoice. The invoices are
sorted by invoice number, with a break on invoice number change.
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+garyolman1=hvc.rr.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+garyolman1=hvc.rr.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of George Simon
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:30 PM
To: 'Kenneth Brody'; 'Christopher Yerry'
Cc: 'List Filepro'
Subject: RE: X of Y



> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:34 PM
> To: Christopher Yerry
> Cc: List Filepro
> Subject: re: X of Y
> 
> Quoting Christopher Yerry (Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:07:30 -0700 (PDT)):
> [...]
> > My contentious comment:
> > There is no reason page x of y is not in filepro this
> > is 2005 not 1977.
> [...]
> 
> And please explain how you can know how many pages will be printed
> _before_ the report is generated.  Remember to take into account
> subtotal breaks, records being printed multiple times (or not at
> all) with PRINT statements, forced page breaks via PAGE, and non-
> fixed-length records because of "remove unwanted blank lines".
> 
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I think this can be done rather easily by printing the report to a file,
saving the total number of pages, changing the printer name to a line
printer and then using the 'reset' command.  A little math is needed to get
the correct page numbers because the 'reset' command does not reset the @pn
value but it is rather simple to get the correct page number by deducting
the total number of pages from the @pn value.  PN of TP - PN=@PN-TP
It works for me and the reset command makes it happen so fast, it is almost
transparent to the user.

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