Problem printing - objects printing on separate pages?
I am using CS3 and creating/printing a number of registration forms. Most are printing just fine, but today I have two that are printing most objects on one page, and then all the checkboxes and one line segment on a separate page.
Everything looks fine in illustrator
I tried saving as PDF and then printing from illustrator -- still came out on two separate sheets
When I saved as PDF and tried to open the PDF in Preview (to print from there, Preview crashed (multiple times)
It doesn't have to do with layers -- objects that are printing on the first page are in the same layer as objects that are printing on the second page
I've tried everything I can think of! Thanks in advance!
Well, are you sure you are not simply exceeding the printers bleed/ crop areas? A single point/ pica/ micron of a single page element can trigger this. Apart from that, look for stray isolated elements with no fills or strokes, leftover isolated anchor points, excessively large clipping constructs and groups and similar...
Mylenium
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text = "10:00";
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pen.x=x2+2;
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text = "Costruzioni Benedini";
pen.x=x3+2;
//printJustified(text, x4-x3-4,textY);
//referente
text = "Sig. Alessandro mmmm mmmm mmm mmmm mm ";
pen.x=x4+2;
//printJustified(text, x5-x4-4, textY);
//indirizzo
text = "Via del Ca'";
pen.x=x5+2;
//printJustified(text, x6-x5-4,textY);
//citta' + (prov)
text = "Pozzolengo S. (VR)";
pen.x=x6+2;
//printJustified(text, x7-x6-4,textY);
//telefono
text = "335/6998523";
pen.x=x7+2;
//printJustified(text, x8-x7-4,textY);
//motivazione
//text = "Primo Appun";
pen.x=x8+2;
//printJustified(text, x9-x8-4,textY);
//Appuntamento con
//text = "Alessandro";
pen.x=x9+2;
//printJustified(text, x10-x9-4,textY);
//textY=pen.y+12;
try
textY=Double.valueOf(maxPens.get(i).toString()).doubleValue()+12;
System.out.println(i+" recuperato");
catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException a)
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textY=maxPen+12;
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//return(NO_SUCH_PAGE);
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pen.y=y;
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}in Document i use the printJustified method that simply splits the text in rows.
i'll don't explain the method 'cause my question is another.
thanx a lot
please!!!
sandroBasically you need to write some smart code. Your application needs to be able to determine what to print on each page because the print api will call the following function passing a page number. Your application must know what to paint on each page. If you think it sounds complicated you better believe it is !!
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// Need to calc the pages here
page = (Graphics2D)g;
calcPages();
say("Printing page " + PageNumber);
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Problem when printing objective settings
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I checked the text with tr phap-catalog and it's stored correctly.
I don't know where I have to investigate.
Could anyone help me?
thanks a lot
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refere this OSS note matter. May resolve your issue.
OSSNote:960341
Symptom
In some device types (e.g HPLJ4, HPLJ5) you experience non-uniform character spacing in the PDF document after the PDF conversion of SAPscript or Smart Forms documents, using HELVE or TIMES fonts. You want to know the reason.
Other terms
CONVERT_OTF, SAPscript, Smart Forms
Reason and Prerequisites
The problem is not due to an error in the PDF converter but due to the fact, that the printer font, underlying the device type (e.g. Univers or CG Times in PCL-5 device types), is not available for the PDF converter and is either not available in Adobe Reader. The PDF converter has to try to simulate the layout of the printer font by means of a font which is predefined in Adobe Reader. This is done by assigning the letter widths of the printer font to the font used in Adobe Reader.
The PDF file contains a table with letter widths, used by Adobe Reader in the output of text, for each used printer font (except PostScript fonts).
Example:
%Charwidth values from HP4300 HELVE 060 normal
/Widths
[ 278 333 500 633 633 1000 758 333 333 333 633...
Adobe reader converts this width table, by modifying the space between each character, so that the specified letter width (= space between the current and the next letter) is kept.
This 'Simulation' of printer fonts results in the sometimes visible irregular spaces in PDF.
The PDF converter always uses the Helvetica Adobe PostScript font for the display of HELVE and the Times Roman Adobe PostScript font for the display of TIMES. However, for these Adobe PostScript fonts, Adobe Reader often uses a Windows TrueType font, which differs slightly from the original PostScript font.
Solution
Workaround: Use the POST2 PostScript device type or the PDF1 PDF device type for the PDF conversion of documents in the Latin-1 character set. They both use the Adobe PostScript fonts Helvetica or Times Roman for the HELVE/TIMES printer fonts.
Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 30.06.2006 12:44:06
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Consulting
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
OSS Note: 776507
Symptom
Documents printed via SAPscript or SmartForms do not print with correct special characters, e.g. ### prints instead of Japanese or Russian characters. What to do?
Other terms
SAPscript, SmartForms, printing, device types, OTF
Reason and Prerequisites
Help required to choose proper fonts in a SAPscript or SmartForm
Solution
When using SAPscript or SmartForms to print (or email or fax) a form from a business application, many factors influence the outcome of the actual text within the form. All these factors must be checked in order to ensure a correct printout:
1) The language version of the form used to produce the printout.
Example: If you want to print a French invoice, you need to have a FR version of your SAPscript or SmartForms invoice form RVINVOICE01. And the application program must specify the corresponding language key (FR) when calling the SAPscript or SmartForms API.
2) The font selections specified in the form (possibly also in a SAPscript style or SmartStyle used in a form).
Example: In a SAPscript form or a SmartStyle you need to specify HELVE if you want to print German text in Helvetica (or similar) font. If you want to print Japanese text, HELVE is not a valid choice but you need to specify a Japanese font like JPMINCHO in your Japanese form.
3) The output character set of the device type
Every printer in transaction SPAD has a "device type" assigned. Device types used by the spooler for printing support only one single specific output character set. All text from the form has to be converted (using SAP's built-in character conversion mechanism) to this output character set.
A character set can typically support either a single language (e.g. Shift-JIS which supports only Japanese) or a set of languages (e.g. ISO 8859-1, which supports Western-European languages). It is possible that a given language (such as German) can be supported by several output character sets, e.g. you may use either ISO 8895-1 (Latin-1) or ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) to represent German text. This is so because both character sets contain the special characters used in German.
Example: HPLJ4000 is a HP LaserJet device type supporting the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. ISO 8859-1 can be used to represent e.g. Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish but NOT Russian or Japanese.
As a consequence, it is ok to use HPLJ4000 to print English, German French etc. but not for Japanese or Russian.
4) The set of available printer fonts for a given device type
When formatting a document, SAPscript and SmartForms perform an automatic mapping of the font definitions in the form (e.g. "HELVE 14 point bold") and the available printer fonts of the device type. A replacement printer font is chosen, should the specified font selection not be available in the device type. Now this replacement can be problematic if a language-specific font, such as Chinese CNSONG, is specified in a form and it gets replaced by a font which does not support this language, e.g. COURIER.
To solve this problem, font families in SE73 have language attribute assigned, e.g. some fonts are characterized as being suitable only for certain languages. And when a replacement has to be chosen because the original font from the form is not available in the device type, a replacement font is chosen which has the same language attributes.
If no fonts for the language in question exist in the device type, the resulting font will not be able to print the special characters and you will see "wrong" output characters in the printout.
Note on SAPscript/SmartForms Print Preview:
The OTF Print Preview available in Windows GUI (e.g. from transaction SP01) will sometimes not show the "wrong" characters which appear on the final printout. Here is the reason: since the Print Preview runs in Windows environment, it will use Windows fonts to represent the actual printer fonts. A Windows font typically has more available characters (i.e. covers more character sets) than are actually available in a printer's resident font.
A typical example where the Print Preview will differ from the printout is here: if you have a Chinese PCL5 printer such as CNHPLJ4 and use the Western Latin font COURIER in your document, the print preview will show you Chinese characters if you (by accident) tried to format Chinese characters in COURIER font. This is because Windows will automatically choose a font that can output Chinese characters (which is actually not Courier). But when you print the job on an actual PCL5 printer with resident Western and Chinese fonts, the Courier font will not print any Chinese characters but Western special characters instead, because the printer's resident Courier font does not include Chinese characters.
Rule of thumb: all Asian device types (e.g. CNHPLJ4, JPHPLJ4, JPPOST, KPHPLJ4) support not only Asian fonts but also COURIER, HELVE and TIMES fonts. But these Latin fonts can only be used to print English text, not Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
Which fonts are suitable for a given language?
Language(s): Font family to use in a form:
Latin-1 (Western Europe/Americas) *******
DE,EN,FR,ES,NL,SV COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
(LETGOTH, LNPRINT)
Latin-2 (Central Europe) ****************
PL, CZ COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-4 (Baltic) *********************
ET, LT, LV COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic) *******************
BG, RU, SR, UK COURCYR, HELVCYR, TIMECYR
ISO 8859-7 (Greek) **********************
EL COUR_I7, HELV_I7, TIME_I7
ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) *********************
HE COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) ********************
TR COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
Simplified Chinese **********************
ZH CNHEI, CNKAI, CNSONG
Japanese ********************************
JA JPMINCHO, DBMINCHO, DBGOTHIC
Korean **********************************
KP KPBATANG, KPDODUM, KPGULIM
KPGUNGSE, KPSAMMUL
Traditional Chinese *********************
ZF TWDPHEI, TWMING, TWSONG
Thai ************************************
TH THANGSAN, THDRAFT, THVIJIT
Arabic (Unicode systems only) ***********
AR ANDALE_J
Verify your output by examining the OTF data
When analysing printing problems of this type, be sure to check the OTF data which gets produced by SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF or "Output Text Format" is the intermediate page-description format generated from SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF will contain the final printer font names and character set/language identifiers which help to solve the problem. OTF will even name the form and the language of the form used to create the output.
The easiest way to do this is to create a spool request from your application, run transaction SP01, use menu
Goto->Display Requests->Settings
and choose
Display Mode: Raw
Now display your spool request. If this is a SAPscript or SmartForms spool request, you will see OTF data. Each line represents one OTF command, every command starts with a 2-character cmd identifier and possibly some cmd parameters follow.
Here is an excerpt from a sample OTF file where we highlight the most interesting commands:
//XHPLJ8000 0700 00000000001
IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
IN05%PAGE1
OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
IN06%WINDOW2
MT0024401289
CP11000000E
FCHELVE 120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
UL +0000000000000
SW00067
CT00000000
ST0453037Dieses SF hat Stil ALEXTEST_ZEBRA mit
The 1st line with the // (Control) command reveals the device type usedto print: HPLJ8000
//XHPLJ8000 0700 00000000001
The 2nd line (IN = Info command) shows the name and (internal 1-char)language key of the form:
IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
In this case it is the English (E = EN) SmartForm ALEXTEST_ZEBRA
The OP-line (OP = Open Page) gives the page format used in the form, it is DINA4 Portrait orientation:
OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
The CP (CodePage) cmd shows the SAP system codepage used to code the text and the active language. In our case it is codepage 1100 and language E = EN = English.
CP11000000E
Finally, the FC-cmd (Font Call) lists a printer font selected within SmartForms. Please note that every SmartForm has a designated default SmartStyle under "Form Attributes->Output Options". In addition, every text node can have a SmartStyle attached (which will override the definitions from the default style for the text). In our case the resulting printer font that was selected is HELVE 12.0 pt bold-off, italic-off.
FCHELVE 120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 22.08.2005 09:57:20
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Customizing
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
BC-SRV-SSF Smart Forms
reward if useful
regards,
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ios8 problem. ibooks individually open up ok black print on white, but the "page" shows as dark charcoal with indistinct pale lettering and I can't read it. My home page picture appears to "bleed" through. Nowhere to fix the "page". It's crap. Please help
I'd still prefer to keep separate user accounts. I never had any issues like this before. The only time I started having a problem was when I was just trying to force empty the trash a few months ago. I came on here looking for a solution and someone posted a way to empty the trash using the terminal. Before then, I hadn't used the terminal for anything--it was just another app in my utilities folder. (None of this has anything to do with having separate user accounts. Plenty of people with kids make second and third user accounts on their laptops so that multiple people can use one laptop, having more than one user on a laptop is not very difficult.) But thank you, I'll try that out and see if it works!
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I'm trying to print multiple frames from a website onto separate pages.
Firefox has this option on OSX (each frame on separate page), but safari seems to lack such an option.
I need to print multiple frames (invoices from zencart) each on separate pages. When I try to print with Safari it will either try and print the selected frame, or it will print all the frames as it's laid out on the page (all printed on one page). Am I missing this option somewhere? Is there an extension I can try (already tried print plus to no avail)?
Thanks for all the help!Wasn't aware of that, I'm trying to disable Full Screen completely in all Apps on my Lion.
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Question
Printing internet pages
Reduced print size
Only the first page is reduced and printed as desired
All pages after the first page are full size with information cut off
Recent problem never seen before
Can print from Safari and other software just fine
How can I get all pages to be reduced size?One suggestion worked from the Firefox prints incorrectly link mentioned above by mha007. I'm thrilled since this has been annoying me for weeks. Thanks mha007!
Reset all Firefox printer settings
# Open your profile folder:
# On the menu bar, click on the Help menu and select Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.
# Under the Application Basics section, click on Show in Finder. A window with your profile folder will open.
# Note: If you are unable to open or use Firefox, follow the instructions in Finding your profile without opening Firefox.
# On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu and select Quit Firefox.
# In your profile folder, copy the prefs.js file to another folder to make a backup of it.
# Open the original prefs.js file in a text editor (such as TextEdit).
# Remove all lines in prefs.js that start with print. and save the file.
# If something goes wrong when you open Firefox, close it again and overwrite prefs.js with the backup you made. -
Pages: Special problem with duplex printing on hp310c
I used to produce and print double sided flyers with pages on my ipad4. My HP 310c printer is ready to print duplex. Everything worked fine until I loaded the IOS7 version of pages (Nov 13). Now there are problems. If I fold the flyer the second page is printed up side down. After some research in internet it seems to me that until the IOS 7 version pages had as default setting "flip on short edge" and now it changed to "flip on long edge". The mac version of pages allows you to toggle between this options (duplex printing). I see no way to change this on my ipad.
The problem seems to be a little bit tricky, but perhaps there is anybody out there to help me.
Thanks ManfredTThat is my problem also. You are flipping to the long side, you need to flip to the short side. I order to get the back one to be right side up. I was able to get windows 8 to do that today without doing anything beside selecting landscape and flip to short side. But when I use my iPad I donot have that selection. I need software to be able to have that option.
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Vendor wise print on separate page
Dear all,
I have an ALV Report which display vendor account statement for all the vendors entered in selection screen.
I want to take a print for all vendors but each vendor statement should display on separate page. For new Vendor print should be taken on new page.
e.g.
start page1
Vendor1.
Accno. Amount
123 50000
234 40000
end page1
start page2
Vendor2.
Accno. Amount
123 50000
234 40000
end page2
Pls, Suggest any good solution.
Thanks & regards,
Sandip SonarFor getting the vendor number page break you need to fill up the IT_SORT
like
PERFORM F_SORT USING 'LIFNR' 'T_OUTPUT' '' '*'.
FORM F_SORT USING l_FIELD l_TABLE l_UP l_group.
ADD 1 TO L_POS.
w_SORT-SPOS = l_POS.
w_SORT-FIELDNAME = l_FIELD.
w_SORT-TABNAME = l_TABLE.
w_SORT-UP = l_UP.
w_sort-group = l_group.
APPEND w_sort to IT_SORT.
ENDFORM.
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY'
EXPORTING
i_callback_program = sy-repid
i_callback_top_of_page = 'TOP_OF_PAGE'
I_CALLBACK_HTML_TOP_OF_PAGE = 'HTML_TOP_OF_PAGE'
IS_LAYOUT = ws_layout
it_fieldcat = t_fieldcat
IT_SORT = it_sort
it_events = it_events
TABLES
t_outtab = T_OUTPUT.
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I am having problems printing a pdf document. When I select a file to print and try to print it says that "no pages selected to print". The default all pages was selected by me but the message keeps coming up. I recently installed adobe reader version 11. Rebooted the computer but sitll having issues printing docs.
JerseyguyHi Pat.
Yes, both of them lead to the very same error.
I have a workaround, kind of, where I preview the document and select all the pages that are correct (read showing on the pages preview) as included in the 1st screenshot.
As you can see in the first screenshot, the 5th page seems to be non-existandt, however as I try to preview it from the 3rdP software, it comes up just fine and from there I can print it individually... just annoying when you have 50 pages and 6 of then are randomly not showing up.
If I try to print the whole document, it simply gives me the 2nd, 3rd and 4th screenshots.
As for the 3rdP software, as stated in prior posts, it has been working flawlesly for the last 5 years, and has not been updated in any way, shape of form... As you said, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to look into that, however I don't believe the contract for the software maintenance is still in effect...
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Is it possible to print separate pages on the same sheet in preview. I would like to split a set of class power points to display Page 1 and 2 on the first page, page 3 and 4 on the second page etc.
Thanks in advance!Nevermind everyone!
I got it to work with Print Down/Across...silly me.
Thanks anyway!
-Arin
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