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by Pliny
Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:33 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: VBA and Timing
Replies: 5
Views: 22613

Hi - As I mentioned in my posting under "COM Interface for Print Job Status", use FileSystemObjects FileExists, but this time on the runonce.ini file. Instead of a counter, just loop while runonce.ini exists.... Dim fso as new FileSystemObject while fso.FileExists(<Path>"\runonce.ini&...
by Pliny
Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:21 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: COM Interface for Print Job Status
Replies: 4
Views: 22192

When a file is done printing

In Visual Basic 6.0, which is what I use, I use FileSystemObject FileExists for this. Dim fso as new FileSystemObject do until fso.FileExists("myfile.pdf") loop This holds the program in a loop until the file is written. If you like, a message box can come after that stating that the file ...
by Pliny
Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Page margins
Replies: 3
Views: 18315

Page margins

PS. I guess that I should be more specific about what "old version" I'm referring to. It was 1.0.0.17. We have since gone back to it since it worked well and made nice PDF documents.
by Pliny
Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:08 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Page margins
Replies: 3
Views: 18315

Page margins

Thanks, jr, but then how do I change the default? The API would be a good place to do this.... I can't find anything about margins in the printer properties. Also, the quality of the PDF files produced by the new version is nowhere near as good as it was for the previous version, and I've tried all ...
by Pliny
Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:15 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Page margins
Replies: 3
Views: 18315

Page margins

In the older version of BullZip that we had (from about a year go), we were able to get the page top and left margins from Visual Basic 6.0 using the Windows API GetDeviceCaps. Now, with the very latest version downloaded today, GetDeviceCaps returns 0. Is GetDeviceCaps no longer usable with BullZip...