It's Amazing.....

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Atlas

.....but true.

I have designed a report where data is shown into a sort of grid, made up
from textboxes border; the textboxes are of the same height and the border
color is gray; perfectly aligned.

Fast laser printer set to "No"

Now when printing data, some of the "lines" of the grid, are not printed and
some of them are not aligned!!!!

How can it be that?

Thanks
 
Atlas said:
....but true.

I have designed a report where data is shown into a sort of grid, made up
from textboxes border; the textboxes are of the same height and the border
color is gray; perfectly aligned.

Fast laser printer set to "No"

Now when printing data, some of the "lines" of the grid, are not printed and
some of them are not aligned!!!!

How can it be that?
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Because the dots-per-inch for your printer is not the same as the
pixels-per-inch for your monitor. Print preview is a "close approximation"
of your printer output. They will seldom agree perfectly.

Check the actual numeric settings for Width, Height, Top, and Left rather
than relying on what you see on the screen.
 
Because the dots-per-inch for your printer is not the same as the
pixels-per-inch for your monitor. Print preview is a "close approximation"
of your printer output. They will seldom agree perfectly.

Check the actual numeric settings for Width, Height, Top, and Left rather
than relying on what you see on the screen.
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Ok I've forced the size to tallest and aligned the block.

One thing I'm still missing is some of the grayed lines of the "grid".

The properties for the textboxes composing the grid are:

- Border style: solid
- Border color: 12632256
- Border widht: hairline

If I set the width to 1pt all the "gridlines" are print, but some of them
are thicker........

Any hint?
 
Atlas said:
Ok I've forced the size to tallest and aligned the block.

One thing I'm still missing is some of the grayed lines of the "grid".

The properties for the textboxes composing the grid are:

- Border style: solid
- Border color: 12632256
- Border widht: hairline

If I set the width to 1pt all the "gridlines" are print, but some of them
are thicker........

Any hint?
Click to expand...

In some cases these issues cannot be resolved except to perhaps go to a
higher resolution printer. There can be circumstances where the position
and thickness of your line combined with the resolution of the printer
causes the line to be "between" resolution points. In these cases the
printer might go either way. It might "round up" (for lack of a better
term) and you end with a slightly thicker line or it might go the other way
and your line ends up thinner. In the case of a "hairline" setting this
might mean the line is lost altogether.

You could tweak the driver settings for print processing and find a
combination that works better.
 
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